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The Runaway Skyscraper
- Author
- Murray Leinster
- Narrator
- Frank Harrison
- Publisher
- Audioliterature
- Publish Date
- 20 December 2017
- Run Time
- 1 hour 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Murray Leinster
- Narrator
- Frank Harrison
- Duration
- 1 hour 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 December 2017
- ISBN
- 4251177549113
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Audioliterature
- Genre
- Science fiction: aliens / UFOs
Synopsis
The Runaway Skyscraper is a science fiction story about Arthur Chamberlain, an engineer who works in a midtown Manhattan office building called the Metropolitan Tower. When the sun suddenly begins moving backwards in the sky, setting rapidly in the east, he is the only one to realize what is actually happening: a flaw in the rock beneath the building has caused it to subside, but instead of moving in space, the building is falling backwards into the past. When the subsiding finally ends, the building is located several thousand years in the past, and its 2000-odd inhabitants find themselves stranded in pre-Columbian Manhattan. Chamberlain also realizes that the same seismic forces that caused the building to drop back into the past can also be used to return it to the present, but that doing so will require several weeks of intensive work by the building's inhabitants, and in the meantime they must concentrate on feeding themselves…
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