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The Horror of the Heights [Classic Tales Edition]

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
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A zealous aviator penetrates the highest strata of our atmosphere and discovers a groundbreaking new form of life. And yet he knows that this strange alien life form has claimed the lives of two aviators before him, and it may claim his own.

Public Domain (P)2010 B.J. Harrison
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Dated but interesting.

This is obviously quite dated now, but it is still an interesting look at the earliest days of flight, the fears and mysteries that surrounded it, the speculation about what might be waiting out there in the atmosphere. We take it for granted now, but it must have been genuinely terrifying for the earliest pilots who ventured higher and further out than previous pilots, pushing those envelopes, wondering what they were going to encounter - be it mechanical limitations, new weather phenomena or something else entirely. It was a real enough fear that it generated stories like this.

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