The Poison Belt — Arthur Conan Doyle

Professor Challenger has calculated the end of the world—and orders his friends to bring oxygen.

Three years after The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle reunites Challenger, Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E. D. Malone for an even stranger crisis. As Earth enters a poisonous region of cosmic ether, five people seal themselves inside a Sussex room and watch civilization fall silent. Tense, witty, and unexpectedly philosophical, The Poison Belt is a compact classic of early apocalyptic science fiction.

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“It is imperative that now at once, while these stupendous events are still clear in my mind, I should set them down with that exactness of detail which time may blur.”

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Text: Project Gutenberg eBook #126. Audio: LibriVox, read by Mark F. Smith. Both are public domain in the United States. This clean text edition contains no genuine interior illustrations.