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edwindownward's review
3.0
I found Professor Challenger to be a wholly unlikeable man I'd want nothing to do with. The views given to us by his closest companions are the only reason I kept reading. They made the stories.
Honourable mention goes to Professor Chalkenger and the Crimsom Wonder.
Honourable mention goes to Professor Chalkenger and the Crimsom Wonder.
kellswitch's review
3.0
** Full disclosure: I received this book in exchange for an honest review**
A collection of short stories inspired by Professor George Edward Challenger from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Lost World”.
First up, I have never read The Lost World, so I can't really say if the authors in this anthology have captured the spirit of the character or not, I initially didn't think it would be a problem but after struggling with some of these stories, perhaps it was.
I got a sense that some of the authors were trying to imitate the writing style of the original story, but again I'm not sure. For me those stories just came across and cartoonishly flat. That does not mean the collection as a whole was bad, I enjoyed several of the stories, though the ones that seemed to work the best for me were the ones that either focused the least on the Challenger character, or who wrote in a more modern style...I especially liked the ones that mashed up other authors works, such as Lovecraft or H. G. Wells.
Not the strongest collection of stories I've read, many started to blur into each other as they started to feel repetitive but there were standouts such as Out Of The Depths by Andrew J Wilson or Time's Black Gulf by Josh Reynolds just to name two. I would say that this is a good collection to read with time in between each story rather than one after another as that adds to the sense of repetition and the blurring together.
A collection of short stories inspired by Professor George Edward Challenger from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Lost World”.
First up, I have never read The Lost World, so I can't really say if the authors in this anthology have captured the spirit of the character or not, I initially didn't think it would be a problem but after struggling with some of these stories, perhaps it was.
I got a sense that some of the authors were trying to imitate the writing style of the original story, but again I'm not sure. For me those stories just came across and cartoonishly flat. That does not mean the collection as a whole was bad, I enjoyed several of the stories, though the ones that seemed to work the best for me were the ones that either focused the least on the Challenger character, or who wrote in a more modern style...I especially liked the ones that mashed up other authors works, such as Lovecraft or H. G. Wells.
Not the strongest collection of stories I've read, many started to blur into each other as they started to feel repetitive but there were standouts such as Out Of The Depths by Andrew J Wilson or Time's Black Gulf by Josh Reynolds just to name two. I would say that this is a good collection to read with time in between each story rather than one after another as that adds to the sense of repetition and the blurring together.
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