Language: English
Published in: 1911
Categorie(s): Fiction, Science Fiction
Word count: 43,902 words (≈ about 3 hours)
Source: http://gutenberg.org
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.
In the decade following its completion in 1909, New York's once-tallest building, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower, suffered a series of unfortunate mishaps. In rapid succession it was exposed to poisonous gases, submerged under twenty thousand feet of water, struck by the tail of a comet, and transported… (more)
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This is the same book as "The Vacant World", the first part of the "Darkness and Dawn" Trilogy. The other parts are "Beyond the Great Oblivion" and "The Afterglow".