The Lost World and The Poison Belt
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Introduction by Conor Reid
Afterword by Joshua Glenn
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Introduction by Conor Reid
Afterword by Joshua Glenn
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Introduction by Conor Reid
Afterword by Joshua Glenn
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Introduction by Conor Reid
Afterword by Joshua Glenn
Part of MIT Press / Radium Age
Part of MIT Press / Radium Age
Category: Science Fiction
Category: Science Fiction
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$19.95
Feb 21, 2023 | ISBN 9780262545259
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Feb 21, 2023 | ISBN 9780262373777
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Praise
“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
Table Of Contents
Series Foreword vii
Introduction xiii
Conor Reid
The Lost World 1
Foreword 3
I There Are Heroisms All Round Us 5
II Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger 13
III He is a Perfectly Impossible Person 23
IV It’s Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World 33
V Question! 55
VI I Was the Flail of the Lord 73
VII To-morrow We Disappear into the Unknown 85
VIII The Outlying Pickets of the New World 99
IX Who Could Have Foreseen It? 117
X The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened 147
XI For Once I Was the Hero 165
XII It was Dreadful in the Forest 187
XIII A Sight I Shall Never Forget 207
XIV Those Were the Real Conquests 227
XV Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders 247
XVI A Procession! A Procession! 269
The Poison Belt 293
I The Blurring of Lines 295
II The Tide of Death 317
III Submerged 339
IV A Diary of the Dying 359
V The Dead World 375
VI The Great Awakening 395
Afterword: Challengers of the Known 409
Joshua Glenn
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