Aleksandr Belyayev (1884 - 1942) - izvestneyshiy pisatel'-fantast, klassik otechestvennoy nauchnoy fantastiki i priklyuchencheskogo romana, sochetavshiy avantyurnyy syuzhet s predvoskhishcheniyem nauchnykh otkrytiy. Roman Prodavets vozdukha povestvuyet o protivostoyanii meteorologa Klimenko i stremyashchegosya k obogashcheniyu kommersanta Beyli, nauchivshegosya szhizhat' vozdukh iz atmosfery. Tak vozdukh stanovitsya tovarom, a na Zemle izmenyayetsya klimat i lyudyam ostro ne khvatayet vozdukha. ukryj opis