"Ichthyander" - The Amphibian Man

The Story plotting year was 1928, Based of La Plata Bay, Argentina, rumors of a man was spreading the Bay Area Fisherman abruptly. The rumors were true, a young boy named Ichthyander was in the middle of all the saying.

This book of Alexander Beliaev, we find it as Science Fiction in Early Nineteen Hundred. But there were much emotion and agony of lost love brought the novel unique in every possible way.

Dr. Salvador, madden by his out bursting superior intellectual knowledge of all species BIOTECHNOLOGY, found a sickened boy with major Lung's failure. He took the Boy and later told the parent (Boys Father-Balthazar) the boy did not survive the treatment. Balthazar could not accept the truth, burst through the Doctors gate cursing his fate and also his maker.

Many Years gone by, Many of the Bay Area deep water swimmers encountered a human shaped entity in the deepest area of the Ocean multiple times when they were searching for precious pearls. Superstition of one Ocean Demon started up to scare the swimmers abruptly.

There are many interpretations of Alexander Beliaev Fiction story the Amphibian Man, But the story of Ichthyander the boy's innocence has moved me in my younger years in various aspects. Ichthyander was happy gullible child of sea who become victim of curiosity and attraction of opposite sex, lured him to slavery, grave torment and near-death experience.

The ending of the book was Tragic yet left the reader accepting the outcome. Only the sorrow of Balthazar the true father of Ichthyander touch the reader like a misty wind after finishing the book. I suggest all the Fiction lover reader to go through this Classic to find our roots of imaginations even on that time when the imagination of mind was in purest form.

F. Azim, 06.20.2024