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The Garin Death Ray
The Garin Death Ray also known as The Death Box and The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin () is a science fiction novel by the noted Russian author Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy written in 1926–1927. Vladimir Nabokov considered it Tolstoy's finest fictional work.
The "hyperboloid" in its title is not a geometrical surface (though it is utilized in the device design) but a "death ray"-laser-like device (thought up by the author many decades before lasers were invented) that the protagonist, engineer Garin
Garin
Garin may refer to:
Geography.
- Garín, Argentina, a town in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Garin, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
- Garin Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Hamadan Province, Iran
- Garin, Haute-Garonne
- Garin, former Armenian name given to Erzurum/Theodosiopolis (Armenia)
Names.
- Garin (given name)
- Garin (surname)
- Engineer Garin of "The Garin Death Ray",