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* LongTitle: The book's full title is "''The Poison Belt: Being an Account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger.''"
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''The Poison Belt'' is a 1913 sequel to ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1912 The Lost World]]'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. [[Literature/ProfessorChallenger Professor George Edward Challenger]] (the cantankerous hero of ''The Lost World'') predicts that the Earth will pass through a belt of "[[DeadlyGas poisonous ether]]" which will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt kill all life]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt on the planet]]. Together with his wife and his companions from his previous adventure, IntrepidReporter Edward Malone, GentlemanAdventurer Lord John Roxton, and AbsentmindedProfessor (and Challenger's former rival) Professor Summerlee, Challenger [[LockedInARoom holes up]] in an airtight room of his own design to await, and hopefully survive, the coming apocalypse. Has a TwistEnding!
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''The Poison Belt'' is a 1913 sequel to ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1912 The Lost World]]'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. [[Literature/ProfessorChallenger Professor George Edward Challenger]] (the cantankerous hero of ''The Lost World'') predicts that the Earth will pass through a belt of "[[DeadlyGas poisonous ether]]" which will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt kill all life]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt life on the planet]]. Together with his wife and his companions from his previous adventure, IntrepidReporter Edward Malone, GentlemanAdventurer Lord John Roxton, and AbsentmindedProfessor (and Challenger's former rival) Professor Summerlee, Challenger [[LockedInARoom holes up]] in an airtight room of his own design to await, and hopefully survive, the coming apocalypse. Has a TwistEnding!
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* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Of course, the ending reveals that (almost) EverybodyLives. Rather than feeling like a CopOut, though, the earlier gut-wrenching drive through the countryside and the horrifying sight of all the seemingly dead people makes it all the more joyous and triumphant when the main characters find a half-conscious policeman, followed by everyone else slowly waking up. As [[TwistEnding Twist Endings]] go, it's definitely on the happier side.]]
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* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Of course, the ending reveals that (almost) EverybodyLives. Rather than feeling like a CopOut, though, the The earlier gut-wrenching drive through the countryside and the horrifying sight of all the seemingly dead people makes it all the more joyous and triumphant when the main characters find a half-conscious policeman, followed by everyone else slowly waking up. As [[TwistEnding Twist Endings]] go, it's definitely on the happier side.]]
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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:Though the ether isn't directly lethal, there are consequences to knocking out the entire planet so quickly. Trains crash and cities catch fire, killing thousands--though the protagonists find that number joyously low, since they thought the gas had killed ''billions''.]]
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* RealityEnsues: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Though the ether isn't directly lethal, there are consequences to knocking out the entire planet so quickly. Trains crash and cities catch fire, killing thousands--though the protagonists find that number joyously low, since they thought the gas had killed ''billions''.]]
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''The Poison Belt'' is a 1913 sequel to ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1912 The Lost World]]'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. [[Literature/ProfessorChallenger Professor George Edward Challenger Challenger]] (the cantankerous hero of ''The Lost World'') predicts that the Earth will pass through a belt of "[[DeadlyGas poisonous ether]]" which will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt kill all life]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt on the planet]]. Together with his wife and his companions from his previous adventure, IntrepidReporter Edward Malone, GentlemanAdventurer Lord John Roxton, and AbsentmindedProfessor (and Challenger's former rival) Professor Summerlee, Challenger [[LockedInARoom holes up]] in an airtight room of his own design to await, and hopefully survive, the coming apocalypse. Has a TwistEnding!
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* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:Though the ether isn't directly lethal, there are consequences to knocking out the entire planet so quickly. Trains crash and cities catch fire, killing thousands--though the protagonists find that number joyously low, since they thought the gas had killed ''billions''.]]
* TwistEnding:[[spoiler: Of [[spoiler:Of course, the ending reveals that (almost) EverybodyLives. Rather than feeling like a CopOut, though, the earlier gut-wrenching drive through the countryside and the horrifying sight of all the seemingly dead people makes it all the more joyous and triumphant when the main characters find a half-conscious policeman, followed by everyone else slowly waking up. As [[TwistEnding Twist Endings]] go, it's definitely on the happier side.]]]]
* UnPaused: [[spoiler:When humans wake up from the ether's sedative effects, they resume whatever they were doing before without any pause. It takes a while for the protagonists to convince everyone that they're missing 38 hours of time.]]
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: The protagonists are dismayed when they look out the window and see Challenger's chauffeur, Austin, succumb to the gas. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone With shame]], Malone realizes that none of them had even considered inviting Austin--or any of Challenger's other house staff--into their apocalypse shelter.
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* UnPaused: [[spoiler:When humans wake up from the ether's sedative effects, they resume whatever they were doing before without any pause. It takes a while for the protagonists to convince everyone that they're missing 38 hours of time.]]
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: The protagonists are dismayed when they look out the window and see Challenger's chauffeur, Austin, succumb to the gas. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone With shame]], Malone realizes that none of them had even considered inviting Austin--or any of Challenger's other house staff--into their apocalypse shelter.
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''The Poison Belt'' is a 1913 sequel to ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1912 The Lost World]]'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. Professor George Edward Challenger (the cantankerous hero of ''The Lost World'') predicts that the Earth will pass through a belt of "[[DeadlyGas poisonous ether]]" which will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt kill all life]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt on the planet]]. Together with his wife and his companions from his previous adventure, IntrepidReporter Edward Malone, GentlemanAdventurer Lord John Roxton, and AbsentmindedProfessor (and Challenger's former rival) Professor Summerlee, Challenger [[LockedInARoom holes up up]] in an airtight room of his own design to await, and hopefully survive, the coming apocalypse. Has a TwistEnding!
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* ApocalypseHow: Challenger believes the titular belt will wipe out all of humanity and that only he and his friends, locked in their airtight room, will survive. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the ether was just a sedative.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: Planetary. Challenger believes the titular belt will wipe out all of humanity and that only he and his friends, locked in their airtight room, will survive. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the ether was just a sedative.]]
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* LongTitle: The book's full title is "''The Poison Belt: Being an Account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger.''"
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* LongTitle: The book's full title is "''The Poison Belt: Being an Account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger.''"''"
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: Of course, the ending reveals that EverybodyLives. Rather than feeling like a CopOut, though, the earlier gut-wrenching drive through the countryside and the horrifying sight of all the seemingly dead people makes it all the more joyous and triumphant when the main characters find a half-conscious policeman, followed by everyone else slowly waking up. As [[TwistEnding Twist Endings]] go, it's definitely on the happier side.]]
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: Of course, the ending reveals that EverybodyLives. Rather than feeling like a CopOut, though, the earlier gut-wrenching drive through the countryside and the horrifying sight of all the seemingly dead people makes it all the more joyous and triumphant when the main characters find a half-conscious policeman, followed by everyone else slowly waking up. As [[TwistEnding Twist Endings]] go, it's definitely on the happier side.]]
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* HairTriggerTemper: Professor Challenger is still Professor Challenger; the novel begins with him back to his old reporter-assaulting ways after one of Malone's fellow journalists deigns to bother him at home.
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''The Poison Belt'' is a 1913 sequel to ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1912 The Lost World]]'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. Professor George Edward Challenger (the cantankerous hero of ''The Lost World'') predicts that the Earth will pass through a belt of "poisonous ether" "[[DeadlyGas poisonous ether]]" which will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt kill all life]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt on the planet]]. Together with his wife and his companions from his previous adventure, IntrepidReporter Edward Malone, GentlemanAdventurer Lord John Roxton, and AbsentmindedProfessor (and Challenger's former rival) Professor Summerlee, Challenger holes up in an airtight room of his own design to await, and hopefully survive, the coming apocalypse. Has a TwistEnding!
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* CozyCatastrophe: The Challengers and their friends sit out [[spoiler:what they think is]] the end of the world in the airtight room, which is pretty comfy even by modern standards. It's the waiting and anxiety that makes it difficult.
* DeadlyGas: The titular poison belt, which is described as being made up of a kind of [[ScienceMarchesOn undefined]] "ether."
* DeadlyGas: The titular poison belt, which is described as being made up of a kind of [[ScienceMarchesOn undefined]] "ether."
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* DepopulationBomb: The ether [[spoiler:before it turns out it isn't poisonous.]]
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''The Poison Belt'' is a 1913 sequel to ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1912 The Lost World]]'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. Professor George Edward Challenger (the cantankerous hero of ''The Lost World'') predicts that the Earth will pass through a belt of "poisonous ether" which will [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt kill all life life]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt on the planet.planet]]. Together with his wife and his companions from his previous adventure, IntrepidReporter Edward Malone, GentlemanAdventurer Lord John Roxton, and AbsentmindedProfessor (and Challenger's former rival) Professor Summerlee, Challenger holes up in an airtight room of his own design to await, and hopefully survive, the coming apocalypse. Has a TwistEnding!
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: What Challenger predicts the planet passing through the ether belt will result in.
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* JustBeforeTheEnd: Much of the novel takes place during the leadup to Earth's passing through the belt of ether. [[spoiler:The TwistEnding, of course, reveals it isn't really the end.]]
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* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:The TwistEnding is that the gas ether wasn't poisonous, it merely knocked everyone out.]]
* InstantSedation: [[spoiler:The actual effect of the ether, instead of death.]]
* InstantSedation: [[spoiler:The actual effect of the ether, instead of death.]]
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* AscendedExtra: Challenger's wife Jessie and their chauffeur Austin have larger roles than they did in ''The Lost World''.
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* KilledMidSentence: A non-verbal version: Austin, the Challengers' chauffeur, collapses from the effects of the gas in the middle of working on the car. [[spoiler:Since the ether turns out to be non-fatal, it instead turns out to be a non-verbal CollapsedMidSpeech]].
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* KilledMidSentence: A non-verbal version: Austin, the Challengers' chauffeur, [[KilledMidSentence Killed Mid-Tuneup]]: Austin collapses from the effects of the gas in the middle of working on the car. [[spoiler:Since the ether turns out to be non-fatal, it instead turns out to be a non-verbal CollapsedMidSpeech]].[[CollapsedMidSpeech Collapsed Mid-Tuneup]]]].
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* AfterTheEnd: The last part of the story, wherein the character emerge after Earth has finished passing through the belt and the ether has dissipated. The most effective part of the book involves Challenger and the others driving through the countryside and witnessing the devastation wrought by everyone dropping in their tracks (mostly automobile collisions and construction accidents). Doyle really makes the reader ''feel'' the weight of loss as the characters do.
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* ApocalypseHow: Challenger believes the titular belt will wipe out all of humanity and that only he and his friends, locked in their airtight room, will survive. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the ether was just a sedative.]]
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''The Poison Belt'' is a 1913 sequel to ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1912 The Lost World]]'' by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. Professor George Edward Challenger (the cantankerous hero of ''The Lost World'') predicts that the Earth will pass through a belt of "poisonous ether" which will kill all life on the planet. Together with his wife and his companions from his previous adventure, InterpidReporter IntrepidReporter Edward Malone, GentlemanAdventurer Lord John Roxton, and AbsentmindedProfessor (and Challenger's former rival) Professor Summerlee, Challenger holes up in an airtight room of his own design to await, and hopefully survive, the coming apocalypse. Has a TwistEnding!
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''The Poison Belt'' is a 1913 sequel to ''[[Literature/TheLostWorld1912 The Lost World]]'' by CreatorArthurConanDoyle.Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. Professor George Edward Challenger (the cantankerous hero of ''The Lost World'') predicts that the Earth will pass through a belt of "poisonous ether" which will kill all life on the planet. Together with his wife and his companions from his previous adventure, InterpidReporter Edward Malone, GentlemanAdventurer Lord John Roxton, and AbsentmindedProfessor (and Challenger's former rival) Professor Summerlee, Challenger holes up in an airtight room of his own design to await, and hopefully survive, the coming apocalypse. Has a TwistEnding!
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* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:The TwistEnding is that the gas wasn't poisonous, it merely knocked everyone out.]]
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!!Tropes used in this novel:
*EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:The TwistEnding is that the gas wasn't poisonous, it merely knocked everyone out.]]
*ValuesDissonance: Given the time, the Challengers' chauffeur Austin (and indeed, all their other servants) are not allowed into the safe room. Nor do the dutiful domestics expect to be let in.
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!!Tropes used in this novel:
*EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:The TwistEnding is that the gas wasn't poisonous, it merely knocked everyone out.]]
*ValuesDissonance: Given the time, the Challengers' chauffeur Austin (and indeed, all their other servants) are not allowed into the safe room. Nor do the dutiful domestics expect to be let in.
