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    The Runaway Skyscraper: Unabridged
    The Runaway Skyscraper: Unabridged
    The Runaway Skyscraper: Unabridged
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    The Runaway Skyscraper: Unabridged

    Written by Murray Leinster

    Narrated by Frank Harrison

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    About this audiobook

    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…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudioliterature
    Release dateDec 20, 2017
    The Runaway Skyscraper: Unabridged
    Author

    Murray Leinster

    Murray Leinster was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American science fiction and alternate history writer. He was a prolific author with a career spanning several decades, during which he made significant contributions to the science fiction genre.

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