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Robert Williams Wood

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Title: The Man Who Rocked the Earth

Author: Arthur Train
Robert Williams Wood

Release Date: September 4, 2006 [EBook #19174]

Language: English

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_The_ MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH

By ARTHUR TRAIN AND ROBERT WILLIAMS WOOD

Reprint Edition 1974 by Arno Press Inc.
A New York Times Company
New York--1975

SCIENCE FICTION ADVISORY EDITORS
_R. Reginald_
_Douglas Menville_

Copyright (C) 1915 by Doubleday, Page & Company

_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian_

Reprinted by permission of Mrs. Robert W. Wood

Reprinted from a copy in The Library
of the University of California, Riverside

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Train, Arthur Cheney, 1875-1945.
The man who rocked the earth.

(Science fiction)
Reprint of the ed. published by Doubleday, Page,
Garden City, N. Y.

I. Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955, joint author.
II. Title. III. Series.
PZ3.T682Mak6 [PS3539.R23] 813'.5'2 74-16523
ISBN 0-405-06315-6

THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH

_"I thought, too, of the first and most significant realization
which the reading of astronomy imposes: that of the exceeding
delicacy of the world's position; how, indeed, we are dependent
for life, and all that now is, upon the small matter of the tilt
of the poles; and that we, as men, are products, as it were, not
only of earth's precarious position, but of her more precarious
tilt."_--W. L. COMFORT, Nov., 1914

[Illustration: INSTANTLY THE EARTH BLEW UP LIKE A CANNON--UP INTO THE
AIR, A THOUSAND MILES UP]

PROLOGUE

By July 1, 1916, the war had involved every civilized nation upon the
globe except the United States of North and of South America,