Arthur Conan Doyle 1 hr 46 min read

The Earth drifts into a belt of poisonous ether, and Professor Challenger gathers his old comrades in a sealed room with tanks of oxygen, to watch, perhaps, the death of the whole world.

Arthur Conan Doyle's 1913 novel, a sequel to 'The Lost World,' is a gripping cosmic-catastrophe tale. Vivid, thoughtful, ahead of its time. Read it for the return of the roaring Professor Challenger, a small band awaiting the apparent end of humanity as a cloud of poison sweeps the Earth, in an early classic of the disaster genre.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 46 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).