Name: The Runaway Skyscraper
ISBN: 9781649741714

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Why This Clicks

Time Out of Joint

Engineering, time travel, and survival collide in a science-fiction adventure with a skyscraper-sized problem.

Come here for

A building-sized time slip seen through an engineer’s eyes
A high-stakes question of survival and getting home

Expect

A strange temporal disaster with a concrete engineering cause
Danger in a Manhattan far removed from the present

Book Details

Authors: Murray Leinster
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Published: September 21, 2021
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Time Travel Fiction · Sci-Fi Adventure
Reading lane: Time Travel Fiction

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Publisher Categories

Sci-Fi
Space Opera
Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi

About This Book

Arthur Chamberlain, is an engineer who works at the Metropolitan Tower in Midtown Manhatten. When the sun suddenly begins moving backwards in the sky he is the only person who realizes what this means. 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 it finally stops he and the other 2,000 people in the building find themselves stranded in a dangerous pre-Columbian Manhatta...

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Arthur Chamberlain, is an engineer who works at the Metropolitan Tower in Midtown Manhatten. When the sun suddenly begins moving backwards in the sky he is the only person who realizes what this means. 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 it finally stops he and the other 2,000 people in the building find themselves stranded in a dangerous pre-Columbian Manhattan. Can he figure out how to get them back to their own time? More importantly can any of them survive long enough to get back home?