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The Runaway Skyscraper
Murray Leinster
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Arthur Chamberlain has problems. His one-man engineering firm is faltering and his pretty secretary Estelle barely notices him. But these problems are put aside when his Manhattan office building falls into the fourth dimension. Madison Square is filled with wigwams and it’s up to Arthur to engineer a way to make his building to fall back to the future.
Arthur Chamberlain has problems. His one-man engineering firm is faltering and his pretty secretary Estelle barely notices him. But these problems are put aside when his Manhattan office building falls into the fourth dimension. Madison Square is filled with wigwams and it’s up to Arthur to engineer a way to make his building to fall back to the future.
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He paused a moment, his fingers on his pulse.
"Yes, it takes about fifteen seconds for all the four seasons to pass. That means we're going backward in time about four years a minute. If we go on at this rate another hour we'll be back in the time of the Northmen, and will be able to tell if they did discover America, after all."
"Funny we don't hear any noises," Estelle observed. She had caught some of Arthur's calmness.
"It passes so quickly that though our ears hear it, we don't separate the sounds. If you'll notice, you do hear a sort of humming. It's very high-pitched, though."
Estelle listened, but could hear nothing.
"No matter," said Arthur. "It's probably a little higher than your ears will catch. Lots of people can't hear a bat squeak.". . . Read More
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Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was the pseudonym of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movies and hundreds of radio scripts and television play
Sparely written, especially the characterization and the background and emotional reactions. You can credit it as being an early work, a Science Fiction forerunner, but Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were even earlier pioneers in the genre, and took far more pains to immerse the reader in the story, an
ENGLISH: A skyscraper in Manhattan travels back in time several thousand years, with about two thousand persons. The scientific explanation is, of course, absurd. The main interest of the story is in the reaction of the travelers, and the attempt by Arthur, Estelle and the delighted bank manager to
This novelette is considered a seminal work of science fiction. After reading it, it is not hard to see why. It was first published in a general-interest fiction magazine in 1919 (there were not yet any magazines devoted to science fiction, and the term had probably not even been coined at that time
The idea behind the plot is good, as can be expected from world-class sci-fi writer Murray Leinster. Sadly the details of the story feels outdated - since it is written about 100 years ago not much of a surprise. Nonetheless is it still quite readable thanks to the writing talent of its author. A st
A pretty good early time travel story
This sci-fi time travel story is reprinted from the February 22, 1919 issue of "Argosy" magazine. You will not find good explanations for time travel or why the building's electricity, telephone exchange and elevators continued to function. You may also note one