Publisher's Synopsis
Professor Challenger sends a cryptic message to three of his trusted companions from his fabled 'Lost World' expedition, instructing each of them to gather at his house and to bring with them oxygen. Challenger's research has led him to believe that Earth will pass through a dangeous cloud in space and they they can only survive inside a sealed room at his home, watching the world around them perish... Also contains two Profesor Chalenger short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle: When the World Screamed and The Disintegration Machine.