"Bring oxygen - Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World` is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series Conan Doyle displays, in the Challenger books, a knack for writing memorable characters and situations; his description of people going crazy from the ether will have you in hysterics.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Médecin de formation et écrivain écossais (1859–1930), **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle** est mondialement célèbre pour avoir créé le détective *Sherlock Holmes*. Mais son talent s’étend bien au-delà du polar : il explore aussi la **science-fiction**, comme en témoigne *The Poison Belt* (1913), où il mêle aventure, humour et réflexion sur la condition humaine. Engagé dans des causes sociales et passionné de spiritualisme, Conan Doyle a marqué la littérature par son style vif et ses personnages inoubliables.
