The Man Who Rocked the Earth

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The Man Who Rocked the Earth (1915)
by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood, illustrated by Walter L. Greene

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The Man Who Rocked the Earth is an intriguing science fiction novel written in 1915—after the start of World War I, but when America was still neutral. It is notable for describing what an atomic detonation would look like in 1915, thirty years before the United States detonated the first atomic bomb. [Adapted from the Wikipedia article.]

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"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

The
Man who Rocked the Earth

By Arthur Train
and
Robert Williams Wood

Frontispiece

Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1915

Copyright, 1915, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

Copyright, 1914, 1915, The Curtis Publishing Co.

Chapters (not listed in original)

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1931.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1956, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 69 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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