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bdplume 's review for:
The Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle
I absolutely loved this! Doyle brings the wit of Holmes to speculative fiction to great effect. The science is of course 100 years out of date, as are the attitudes of the characters. However, it has aged quite well in terms of pacing. Few classics are as fast-moving. The prose is vivid and the characters vibrant. I think it can be forgiven if its premise is preposterous, because in its day I'm sure it was as plausible as science fiction can be.