The Lost World and The Poison Belt
And the Poison Belt
$41.48
- Paperback
424 pages
- Release Date
18 April 2023
Summary
A heart-stopping adventure tale featuring a brilliant scientist-one as insufferably pompous as Doyle’s most famous character-and his unlikely trio, and its apocalyptic sequel.
In 1912, the creator of Sherlock Holmes introduced his readers to yet another genius adventurer, Professor Challenger, who in his very first outing would journey to South America in search of … an isolated plateau crawling with iguanodons and ape-men! A smash hit, Doyle’s proto-science fiction thriller would be …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262545259 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026254525X |
| Author: | Arthur Conan Doyle, Conor Reid |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 18 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm |
| Series: | MIT Press / Radium Age |
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Critics Review
“Doyle’s Professor Challenger series made the planet and its processes strange again… . The strength of Doyle’s science fiction lies in its facilitation of an encounter between the reader and the biosphere they inhabit… . [and The Lost World] presents a playful meta-reflection on the genre that gives it its name… . Anticipates the windswept tableaux vivants of Jeff VanderMeer’s and Chen Qiufan’s contemporary climate fiction.”
—The Los Angeles Review of Books
In Praise of the Radium Age Series:
“Joshua Glenn’s admirable Radium Age series [is] devoted to early- 20th-century science fiction and fantasy.”
—The Washington Post
“Long live the Radium Age.”
—The Los Angeles Times
“It’s an attractive crusade. […] Glenn’s project is well suited to providing an organizing principle for an SF reprint line, to the point where I’m a little surprised that I can’t think of other similarly high-profile examples of reprint-as-critical-advocacy. ”
—The Los Angeles Review of Books
“Neglected classics of early 20th-century sci-fi in spiffily designed paperback editions.”
—The Financial Times
“New editions of a host of under-discussed classics of the genre.”
—Tor.com
“Shows that ‘proto-sf’ was being published much more widely, alongside other kinds of fiction, in a world before it emerged as a genre and became ghettoised.”
—BSFA Review
“A huge effort to help define a new era of science fiction.”
—Transfer Orbit
“An excellent start at showcasing the strange wonders offered by the Radium Age.”
—Maximum Shelfs
About The Author
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and author who in 1887 introduced Sherlock Holmes, arguably the best-known fictional detective. He also wrote poetry, historical novels, influential gothic short stories, and more. Doyle’s proto-sf series of Professor Challenger adventures include the novels The Lost World (1912), The Poison Belt (1913), and The Land of Mist (1926), and the short stories “When the World Screamed” (1928) and “The Disintegration Machine” (1929).
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