SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS' PREDICTIONS COME TRUE

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The article examines the predictions of the writers who came true; the works of Jules Verne, HG Wells, Mark Twain are considered. KEYWORDS: - “Characters” of science fiction novels, stunning prophecies, biological weapons, artificial insemination, the arrow-shaped writer, computer programs, the worldwide telephone. executed with the help of an electric chair, I NTRODUCTION documents are transmitted by means of a device resembling a modern fax. In the same novel, the In many works of science fiction writers, the question author described the prototype of television, as well of the future of our planet is sharply raised, and each as the ability to communicate by seeing the of them offered its own models of the future. What interlocutor on the monitor. they just didn’t compose, what they didn’t prophesy. A lot of contemporary phenomena and objects that No less striking are the predictions of another famous we consider commonplace were once “characters” of science fiction writer, H.G. Wells. He predicted what science fiction novels and novellas. became reality many decades later: biological weapons, artificial insemination, the method of Jules Verne is a techno-romantic who firmly believed introducing nutrients directly into the blood, etc. in progress, the inexorable logic of the researcher Observing the flight of birds, he predicted that in the and the iron will of the discoverer. The list of things future, high-speed aviation will move to a swept wing that Verne "got" into is quite long. The most amazing - aircraft designers came to this conclusion only prophecies of J. Verne were found in his novel Paris twenty years later. in the 20th century, written in 1863 and found by chance by the writer's great-grandson only in 1994. In the novel War of the Worlds, published in 1898, H. The novel takes place in 1960 in Paris. The novel Wells describes the action of a heat beam, which is describes in detail such things, the invention of which similar to a modern laser: «Then slowly the hissing another inhabitant of the 19th century could not even passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning guess: cars drive through the streets, criminals are noise. Slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL 36 SCIENCES ISSN – 2767-3758 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjps CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2(8): 36-38, May 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-02-08-09 ISSN 2767-3758 ©2021 Master Journals Accepted26thAugust, 2021 & Published 31thAugust, 2021 the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out for a suit: the screen of the cinema, a human figure in from it. white moved. The tailor chose a sample of bluish silk. “That seems to me to be exactly what you need,” he Forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare said. leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. It was as if some invisible jet A fat man came up to them and looked over impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. It Graham's shoulder. was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily “Please hurry up: time is precious,” he said. turned to fire. “Trust me,” said the tailor. - My car will be brought in now .... Well, what do you think of this, sir? - he Then, by the light of their own destruction, I saw turned to Graham. them staggering and falling, and their supporters - What kind of device do you have? - asked, in turn, turning to run. a man of the nineteenth century. - You see, there were fashion magazines in your I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was days. Now this very little thing has replaced them. A death leaping from man to man in that little distant preconventional invention. Look. crowd. All I felt was that it was something very strange. An almost noiseless and blinding flash of He pressed the button again, and the same figure light, and a man fell headlong and lay still; and as the popped up on the dial of the device, but in a new unseen shaft of heat passed over them, pine trees outfit of a wider cut. Click, click - and again the little burst into fire, and every dry furze bush became with man changed his costume ... ". one dull thud a mass of flames. And far away towards Knaphill I saw the flashes of trees and hedges and For Wells' contemporaries, this was fantastic; in the wooden buildings suddenly set alight. modern world, we can use computer programs to choose a style for a suit or hairstyle. It was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this invisible, inevitable sword of heat. American Mark Twain can hardly be called a science I perceived it coming towards me by the flashing fiction writer in the classical sense of the word. bushes it touched, and was too astounded and Nevertheless, he created several fantastic works, and stupefied to stir. I heard the crackle of fire in the sand among them is the story "From the London Times" pits and the sudden squeal of a horse that was as for 1904 ", written