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Professor Challenger summons his three best friends to come to his country house, each one to bring a cylinder of pure oxygen. When they arrive, the reason for this strange request becomes terrifyingly clear. Professor Challenger has become convinced that the earth is entering a poison belt of ether and that life upon this planet is doomed.
In a sealed room, to the sound of the slow hiss of escaping oxygen, Professor Challenger and his friends wait out the night as humanity prepares to meet its fate…
Also included in this volume are two other famous Professor Challenger stories, "When the World Screamed"and "The Disintegration Machine."
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"A great & marvellous work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.professor challenger , a scientist & explorer who is a great creation by the author him self.a must read book by the sci fi & adventure lover.best regardstusher "
— Tusher (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Conan Doyle may be best remembered for his Sherlock Holmes mysteries, but his works of science fiction are as brilliant and historically significant as they are under-rated. Along with contemporaries H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he helped create the mold for modern science fiction.”
— SFReader.com
The Poison Belt Listener Reviews
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" This isn't so bad, but it isn't another <em>Lost World</em>, and it does stretch my credulity at times. "
— Weathervane, 3/17/2011 -
" I'm not sure I caught the point of this book - the ending made Prof. Challenger's experiment absolutely unnecessary. That's all I'm saying or else I'd have spoilers. :) "
— Laura, 8/27/2010 -
" A very interesting book about the end of the world. Very reflective and somber. Not the catastrophic end, not violent, but an end, in which the characters are forced to be very intropective. Enjoyed very much "
— Kyle, 6/4/2010 -
" Doyle presciently saw that earth would pass through a poisonous belt of ether, <strong>perhaps</strong> killing nearly all mankind. Documented by the incomparable William Pène du Bois's ink drawings. "
— Lobstergirl, 3/2/2010 -
" It doesn't really need to be any more complicated than this. :) "
— Sisimka, 4/16/2009
About Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a writer and physician most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Before becoming a writer, he attended the University of Edinburgh to train as a physician, and it was from his teacher, Joseph Bell, that he learned much of what would inspire Holmes’s skills of deduction. He also wrote science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, he became a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals.
About Fred Williams
Fred Williams, a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, works in theater, film, television, and radio in England, Ireland, and America. Besides narrating audiobooks, he is a performer in living-history reenactments, an archer, and a poet.