The stories range from The Lost World, a sort of’Jurassic Park', high above the Amazon rain-forest, to the ecologically significant When the World Screamed. Other fine examples of Doyle's imagination at its best are The Land of Mist and The Disintegration Machine.

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.

The stories range from The Lost World, a sort of’Jurassic Park', high above the Amazon rain-forest, to the ecologically significant When the World Screamed. Other fine examples of Doyle's imagination at its best are The Land of Mist and The Disintegration Machine.

This collection is a must for all readers who love science fiction and for those who are interested in the early development of the genre.

THE LOST WORLD

I There are Heroisms All Round Us

2 Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger

3 He is a Perfectly Impossible Person

4 It's just the Very Biggest Thing in the World

5 Question!

6 I Was the Flail of the Lord

7 Tomorrow We Disappear Into the Unknown

8 The Outlying Pickets of the New World

9 Who Could Have Foreseen It?

10 The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened

11 For Once I Was the Hero

12 It Was Dreadful in the Forest

13 A Sight I Shall Never Forget

14 Those Were the Real Conquests

15 Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders

16 A Procession! A Procession!

THE POISON BELT

1 The Blurring of the Lines

z The Tide of Death

3 Submerged

4 A Diary of the Dying

5 The Dead World

6 The GreatAwakening

THE LAND OF MIST

1 In Which Our Special Commissioners Make a Start

2 Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company

3 In Which Professor Challenger Gives His Opinion

4 Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith

5 Where Our Commissioners Have a Remarkable Experience

6 In Which the Reader is Shown the Habits of a

 Notorious Criminal

7 In Which the Notorious Criminal Gets What

 the British Law Considers to be His Deserts

8 In VVhicb Three Investigators Come Upon a Dark Soul

9 Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena

10 De Profundis

11 Where Silas Linden Comes Into His Own

12 There are Heights and there are Depths

13 In Which Professor Challenger Goes Forth to Battle

14 In Which Challenger Meets a Strange Colleague

15 In Which Traps are Laid for a Great Quarry

16 In Which Challenger Has the Experience of His Lifetime

17 Where the Mists ClearAway

Appendices

THE DISINTEGRATION MACHINE

 page 441

WHEN THE WORLD SCREAMED

 page 455