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''The Garin Death Ray'' also known as ''The Death Box'' and ''The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin'' ((ロシア語:Гиперболоид инженера Гарина)) 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 but a "death ray"-laser-like device (thought up by the author many decades before lasers were invented) that the protagonist, engineer Garin, used to fight his enemies and try to become a world dictator. "Hyperboloids" of different power capability differ in their effect. The device uses two hyperbolic mirrors to concentrate light rays in a parallel beam. Larger "hyperboloids" can destroy military ships on the horizon, and those of less power can only injure people and cut electric cables on walls of rooms. Charles H. Townes, the inventor of laser, said that his invention had been inspired by this novel. The film adaptations of the novel were released in the Soviet Union in 1965 (''The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin'') and 1973 (''Failure of Engineer Garin''). Estonian band Vennaskond has a song "Insener Garini hüperboloid" (1993) (the hyperboloid of engineer Garin in Estonian). Russian band Пикник (Piknik) has a song "Гиперболоид" (Hyperboloid) (2008) ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Garin Death Ray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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