Publisher's Synopsis
These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and outrageous Professor Challenger. THE POISON BELT presents an eerie doomsday scenario, while in THE DISINTEGRATION MACHINE the deadliest invention ever created is offered up for sale to the highest bidder. Finally, in WHEN THE WORLD SCREAMED, the planet responds violently to an experimental incursion...
