TY - BOOK AU - Doyle,Arthur Conan TI - Danger! and Other Stories AV - PR PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - Short stories, English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger!_and_Other_Stories; Release date is 2007-08-19; Danger! Being the log of Captain John Sirius -- One crowded hour -- A point of view -- The fall of Lord Barrymore -- The horror of the heights (which includes the manuscript known as the Joyce-Armstrong fragment) -- Borrowed scenes -- The surgeon of Gaster Fell -- How it happened -- The prisoner's defence -- Three of them: A chat about children, snakes, and zebus; About cricket; Speculations; The leatherskin tribe; Transcribed from the 1918 John Murray edition by David Price; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Danger! and Other Stories" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a collection of short stories published in 1918. The title story, written before World War I, depicts a fictional nation using submarine warfare to blockade Britain, forcing the country into starvation and surrender. This prescient tale eerily predicted Germany's U-boat strategy and reportedly influenced German naval thinking. The collection also includes "The Horror of the Heights," a science fiction piece about deadly invisible creatures dwelling in the upper atmosphere, alongside other tales of mystery and adventure. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22357 ER -