The Garin Death Ray
Aleksey Tolstoy
Translated by George Hanna
February 22, 2025
ISBN 9798218596644 / Paperback / 434 pages / $19.99

First published in Russian in 1927, Aleksey Tolstoy's The Garin Death Ray is a landmark of early Soviet science fiction. This new edition revives George Hanna's classic English translation, originally issued by the Soviet Foreign Languages Publishing House in 1955.

The novel centers around a brilliant and unhinged scientist who invents a laser-like weapon powerful enough to reshape the balance of the world. With the aid of a ruthless American businessman and his treacherous muse, this mad genius plots a global conquest driven by greed, ambition, and delusion.