The Lost World and The Poison Belt: Being An Account Of Another Adventure Of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, And Mr. E. D. Malone, The Discoverers Of The Lost World (classic Reprint) (MIT Press / Radium Age)

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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,&” he is editor of the MIT Press&’s series of reissued proto-sf stories from that period. He is coauthor and coeditor of various books including the family activities guide Unbored (2012), The Adventurer&’s Glossary (2021), and Lost Objects (2022). In the 1990s, he published the indie intellectual journal Hermenaut.Conor Reid is a podcaster and writer from Ireland. He has published widely on popular fiction and science, including The Science and Fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs (2018). He is the Head of Podcasts at HeadStuff Media as well as the host and producer of his own critically acclaimed literature podcast, Words to That Effect. The podcast, which has been performed live in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, tells stories of the fiction that shapes popular culture.
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2023

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
238 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780262373777
Related ISBNs:
9780262545259
Publisher:
MIT Press
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Introduction by:
Conor Reid

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