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

SCIENCE FICTION ADVISORY EDITORS R. Reginald Douglas Menville

Copyright © 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

INSTANTLY THE EARTH BLEW UP LIKE A CANNON—UP INTO THE AIR, A THOUSAND MILES UP

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