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The Poison Belt

Author
Arthur Conan Doyle
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
80 pages
ISBN
9781909676114
Published
15 July 2013
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Conan Doyle
  • The Poison Belt
  • Professor Challenger
  • adventure stories
  • sir arthur conan doyl
  • mystery
  • adventure
  • science fiction
  • detectiv
  • crime

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Challenger again: Earth slides through a cosmic poison belt, and a handful of people sit with oxygen and watch the world pause. Conan Doyle’s novella is catastrophe as a drawing-room experiment — fear, jokes, the hangover of survival. Scientific romance with the air gone thin. Malone, Lord John, Summerlee, the Challenger household sealed like a jar. Outside, a planet holding its breath. Doyle asks what courage is when there is no jungle, only the sky.

Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, an Edinburgh born physician and writer most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction. A prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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