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“In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger–a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction–Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, ‘the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended’ and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. ‘Just as Sherlock Holmes set the standard–and in some sense established the formula–for the detective story . . ., so too has The Lost World set the standard and the formula for fantasy-adventure stories . . .,’ Michael Crichton writes in his Introduction. ‘The tone and techniques that Conan Doyle first refined in The Lost World have become standard narrative procedures in popular entertainment of the present-day.'”

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