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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext "Having assembled a crew of adventurers, the brilliant, blustering physiologist and physicist Professor Challenger journeys to a South American jungle ... in search of a lost plateau crawling with iguanodons. It's a ripping yarn-the first popular dinosaurs-still-live tale, prototype for everything from King Kong to Jurassic Park. At the same time, however, it's a philosophical novel, one that animates-in a thrilling, humorous fashion-the author's obsessive drive (also seen in his Sherlock Holmes stories) to reconcile the claims of logical reason and intuition. In their second adventure, Challenger et al. discover that the planet is about to pass through a belt of poisonous ether which will destroy all life on Earth. However, Challenger has transformed his wife's dressing room into an airtight chamber, so they can witness the end of the world. An epistemological thriller"-- Leseprobe “It is a marvel of imaginary adventure which Mr. Doyle has achieved.” — New York World (1912) “They who neglect to read it will have missed a highly entertaining flight of the Doyle imagination.” —New York Evening Sun (1912) “The book strikes a fresh note in the literature of adventure.” — Chicago Record-Herald (1912) “At once one of the most realistic and one of the most romantic of [Doyle’s] books.” — The Living Age (1912) “Highly adventurous and thrilling.” — Chicago Tribune (1912) “The last word in the sensational. No less interesting than the feats of Sherlock Holmes.” — Pittsburgh Gazette-Times (1912) “It is the original and real thing, a gem of the Jurassic epoch.” —Seattle Post Intelligencer (1912) “Highly interesting adventure of a sort to stir the pulse and arouse the wonder of even the jaded novel reader.” — New York Times (1912) “Easily one of the best stories of the year. It is filled to overflowing with interest, excitement, and humor.” — Baltimore Sun (1912) “It is a book which excites the reader’s imagination from the opening page, and Mr. Doyle’s consummate descriptive art never found better use than in following the fortunes of his brave band of explorers into a country the like of which was never dreamed.” — Boston Globe (1912) Zusammenfassung 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 adapted twice by Hollywood filmmakers, and it would go on to influence everything from Jurassic Park to the TV show Land of the Lost . Its 1913 sequel, The Poison Belt , finds Challenger and his dino-hunting comrades trapped in an oxygenated chamber as the entire planet passes through a lethal ether cloud. Joshua Glenn is a consulting semiotician and editor of the websites HiLobrow and Semiovox. The first to describe 1900–1935 as science fiction’s “Radium Age,” h...
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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).
