Operation Earthworm

Joe Archibald

Description

Though fans of classic science fiction will definitely enjoy this short story from Joe Archibald, its focus isn't on travels to the farthest reaches of the universe. Instead, the tale is concerned with what a character terms "inner space" -- in other words, the mysterious depths of Earth itself. A miraculous device known as the Magnificent Mole allows explorers to journey to previously undiscovered marvels of the subterranean world.

Sujets

• Science fiction

Informations

• Publié par: The Floating Press
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781776671113
• Langue: English

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OPERATION EARTHWORM
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JOE ARCHIBALD
 
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Operation Earthworm First published in 1955 Epub ISBN 978-1-77667-111-3 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77667-112-0 © 2013 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
Operation Earthworm
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Here he is again, the irrepressible Septimus Spink, in a tale as rollicking as an elder giant juggling the stars and the planets in his great, golden hands and laughing mirthfully as one tiny world—our own—goes spinning away from him into caverns measureless to man. With specifications drawn to scale, Joe Archibald, whose versatility with the quill never ceases to amaze us, has managed with slangy insouciance to achieve a rare triumph over space and time, and to aureole Spink in a resplendent sunburst of imperishable renown.
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Septimus Spink didn't need to read Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth." He had more amazing ideas of his own.
Interplanetary Press, Circa 2022—Septimus Spink, the first Earthman toreach and return from New Mu in a flying saucer, threw a hydroactivebombshell into the meeting of the leading cosmogonists at the Universityof Cincinnatus today. The amazing Spink, uninvited, crashed this augustbody of scientists and laughed at a statement made by Professor ApsoxZalpha as to the origin of Earth and other planets.
"That theory is older than the discovery of the antiquated zipper,"Spink orated. "Ha, you big plexidomes still believe the Earth wascondensed from a filament, and was ejected by the sun under thegravitational attraction of a big star passing close to the Earth'ssurface. First it was a liquid drop and cooling solidified it after aperiod of a few million years. You citizens still think it has a liquidcore. Some of you think it is pretty hot inside like they had atomicfurnaces all fired up. Ha, the exterior ain't so hot either what withtaxes we have to pay after seven wars."
Professor Yzylch Mgogylvy, of the University of Juno, took violentexception to Septimus Spink's derisive attitude and stoutly defended thetheory of adiabatic expansion. It was at this juncture that Spinkpractically disintegrated the meeting.