The Coming of the Ice

Overview:

• Title: The Coming of the Ice
• Author: G. Peyton Wertenbaker
• Year: 1926
• Type: Short Fiction

Synopsis:

The narrator is surgically altered to induce eternal life. He lives for thousands of years, watching man evolve around him. Eventually a new ice age arrives, wiping out all but a handful of people on Earth.

Editions/Publications:

• 1926. Amazing Stories, June 1926 (1926, Hugo Gernsback, 96 pages, Magazine)
• 1961. Amazing Stories, July 1961 (1961, Cele Goldsmith, $0.35, 148 pages, Magazine)
• 1974. The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 1 1926-1935 (1974, Mike Ashley NEL, 239 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
• 1982. Gernsback Awards 1926 (1982, Forrest J. Ackerman Triton Books, v+309 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
• 1982. The Last Man on Earth (1982, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Fawcett, Paperback, Anthology)
• 1982. The Gernsback Awards Vol. 1, 1926 (1982, Forrest J. Ackerman Triton Books, ISBN-10: 0943958016, Hardcover, Anthology)

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