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Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour
Charles Dixon
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Doctor Hermann, cool and collected even in such awful moments, walked slowly back to the laboratory to consult his instruments. Graham and Temple followed, too excited to speak.
"Well, Doctor," said Temple at last, after he had patiently waited his investigation, "what are your conclusions?"
With marvellous coolness, as though answering the merest commonplace remark, Doctor Hermann replied: "It is as I said before; the Sirius is falling with ever-increasing speed into the sun! We are lost!
"Our doom, even if our speed goes on increasing, cannot overtake us for several years," continued the Doctor, "but I doubt if our supplies could hold out for such a period."
"Doctor," broke in Temple excitedly, "that is poor comfort; you ask us too much endur. . . Read More
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This definitely won't be the best book you ever read but I still can't recommend it more because of how well it embodies late-1800s speculative fiction (side note: War of the Worlds was published 3 years after this -- 1898 vs 1895 -- and is considered the first alien invasion novel; humans go to Mar
This is an enjoyable scientific romance. There's quite a bit of action, and definitely lots of romance and philosophical musings. The science is not very accurate by today's standards, but it is internally consistent. It seems clear that this book could have influenced the crop of pulp writers in th