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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd; New Ed edition (5 April 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1853262455
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853262456
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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The science fiction stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stand alongside those of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. The protagonist, the 'cave-man in a lounge suit', is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. In these collected tales he faces adventures such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in "The Lost World" and the challenges of "The Land of Mist".
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Well, this is a mixed bag, 6 Nov 2003
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Three short novels (well, The Poison Belt is a novella at most) and two short stories of wildly varying quality (but consistently compelling readability: at its worst, this is still Doyle). First up, The Lost World: almost too well known to need a review, this is a thrilling adventure story to which I was first introduced as an infant and have reread several times since, and ensures Doyle's place in the pantheon of science fiction's pioneers (although it arguably owes more to Rider Haggard than to Verne and Wells). It is THE dinosaur story, and let nobody tell you otherwise.
After this rattling yarn comes The Poison Belt, frankly a rather bizarre offering, with very little incident - in filmability stakes, the very reverse of The Lost World; but a clever and well-constructed piece, nonetheless. Make sure you read The Lost World first, and know and love the characters before embarking on the second novel with them.
And then... well, the previous reviewers have already ripped The Land of Mist to shreds, and deservedly so. It begins by stating that the previous novels were fictional but their characters real - the point being that Doyle wishes to dissociate this defence of Spiritualism from his works of science fiction, with which it is in fact unworthy to be classed. Somehow Challenger the radical has become a closed-minded reactionary, representing just the sort of scientists he confounded before; and there are many other inconsistencies. Some are minor (a poison whose name Challenger forgot in The Poison Belt, and cried "Excellent!" on being reminded, now turns out to be connected to a dark secret in his past); others more serious (the Challenger who in The Poison Belt referred to "the Great Gardener" and the "uncertainty" of what happens after death has been transformed into a convinced atheist - although, of course, he becomes a Spiritualist in the end). Two chapters rise above, or at least out of, the mire of Spiritualist propaganda: the one which deals with an exorcism attended by Ed Malone and Lord John Roxton has some of the earlier novels' sense of excitement and adventure; and that dealing with the home life of the fraudulent medium Silas Linden seems to belong in another book altogether. It exists because Doyle trod in Dickens' footsteps as a social reformer, and, indeed, it evokes Dickens' work: but the horrific scenes of child abuse contained therein will turn some readers' stomachs.
From this unwholesome fare we turn to the short stories - light-hearted offerings in the vein of The Lost World, crammed with Doyle's (and Challenger's) trademarks of wit, humour and utterly preposterous science. For these alone the book is worth the cover price (so far as I am aware, they are not available elsewhere, unlike the novels).
It might be wise, unless early twentieth-century Spiritualism and the follies into which even intelligent men could be led by it are an especial study of yours, to skip The Land of Mist; but the rest of this volume would be an ornament to any library.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One man's descent from scientist to fanatic, 5 May 2000
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I agree entirely with the previous reviewer, but would add that the real surprise about The Land of Mist's fascinating awfulness is that the previous story - The Poison Belt - is one of Conan Doyle's most artful works. An exciting mix of comedy and adventure story, as befits the sequel to The Lost World, it is also a metaphysical joke, so self-aware that, had it been written a generation later, it would have been called 'post-Modern'. As for The Land of Mist, the previous reviewer is spot on when he points out that Doyle's 'honesty' exposes every supposed proof of spiritualism. Almost uniformly bad, the novel does spring to life whenever Prof. Challenger is introduced - he remained, even in this story, one of the great comic creations of the 20th century.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The complete Professor Challenger, in all his glory., 3 Jun 2004
Besides his Sherlock Holmes stories and his historical romances, Arthur Conan Doyle sometimes turned his fertile imagination to producing science fiction, most of it featuring the titanic Professor George Edward Challenger. This excellent Wordsworth volume collects all five of Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger adventures. And a very mixed bag they are - ranging from compelling adventure through intriguing pseudoscience to Spiritualist propaganda. I won't add anything to previous reviewers' praise for the justly famous "The Lost World", although I must say I reckon that Challenger's adventures among the dinosaurs of Maple White Land will still be read long after Michael Crichton's derivative works are all dust. (Anyway, I just can't forgive Crichton for using Doyle's title for the "Jurassic Park" sequel.) In "The Poison Belt", Challenger and co. hold ring-side seats for Armageddon, watching from inside an oxygen-tent as a change in the ether apparently poisons everybody else. (Doyle's vision of the poisoned world is worthy of H. G. Wells at his best.) Alas, "The Land of Mist" makes Challenger into a Spiritualist, and is very much from the Conan Doyle who believed in the Cottingley Fairies. Doyle lost his son and his brother in the Great War and these losses clearly affected his judgement. However, if you can get past "The Land of Mist", the two final stories are gems. In "The Disintegration Machine", Challenger jousts with a sinister inventor bent on world domination. Finally, in "When the World Screamed", Challenger shows an astonished world that the Earth is really a living thing, not unlike a giant sea-urchin. Doyle may not appear in many lists of great science-fiction writers, but the best Challenger stories are as entertaining as anything he wrote. (More of Doyle's science fiction and weird fiction can be found in the Wordsworth volume "Tales of Unease", which I also highly recommend.)
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