The Runaway Skyscraper
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Overview:
- Title: The Runaway Skyscraper
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Year: 1919
- Type: Short Fiction
Synopsis:
A Manhattan building inadvertently alters the Fourth Dimension, causing it to be propelled backwards in time until all of Manhattan disappears. The building settles into a forested area occupied by Indians. Naturally, an engineer is present, who figures out how to return the building to its proper time.
Notes:
First published in Argosy, 22 February 1919.
Editions/Publications:
- 1926. Amazing Stories, June 1926 (1926, Hugo Gernsback, 96 pages, Magazine)
- 1966. Amazing Stories, February 1966 (1966, Sol Cohen, $0.50, 164 pages, Magazine)
- 1967. The Best of Amazing (1967, Joseph Ross Doubleday, Hardcover, Anthology)
- 2003. Wondrous Beginnings (January 2003, Steven H. Silver, Martin H. Greenberg DAW, ISBN-10: 0756400988, 320 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
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