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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Really enjoyed this. It's a bit like a nuclear holocaust dystopia, from before humans knew what nuclear was. It suffered from the same two dimensional characters and boring set up that a lot of sort sci-fi stories from this time period do, but the pay off was well worth it. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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An imaginative and influential short story from an early contributor to the science fiction genre An insight into early science fiction, full of marvelous imagination and rare scientific genius reaching far beyond the author's time. A comet approaching the Sun causes a tremendous solar explosion, with horrific consequences for Earth and its people. In San Francisco, as daylight, and the Sun's dangerous rays approach, the scientist who predicted the collision and the narrator attempt escape in a balloon. No library descriptions found. |
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