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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Professor Challenger (omnibus 1-2)
Spurred on by the woman he loves, young journalist Edward Malone eagerly joins forces with irascible Professor Challenger on an expedition to South America. Their mission is to verify Professor Challenger's claim of the existence of a Lost World: a mysterious Jurassic-age plateau untouched by human civilization, which holds the promise of treasure and of terror. In writing The Lost World, Conan Doyle brilliantly succeeded in his aim to 'do for the boy's book what Sherlock Holmes did for the detective's tale'. Also included in this volume are The Poison Belt, an apocalyptic story that reunites Challenger and his team, and two fantasies, 'The Terror of Blue John Gap' and 'The Horror of the Heights'. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This volume contains three other stories. The first is the short Challenger novel The Poison Belt, which feels like Doyle's take on The Purple Cloud, In the Days of the Comet, or other similar turn-of-the-century apocalypses. Basically everyone except Challenger and his pals are killed by toxic gases (luckily, Challenger deduces their existence just before the Earth encounters some)... but then it turns out they were all just asleep. Admittedly, some cities do burn down, and humanity resolves to be better as it rebuilds, but it still feels an awful cop-out. It's nowhere near as good as the tales it's aping.
Finally there are two non-Challenger sf tales by Doyle, of which I have no memory, except that one involves an airplane. Take that as you will.