The Runaway Skyscraper
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · September 21, 2021
A Science Fiction pick for readers exploring The Runaway Skyscraper.
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- Who it’s for
- Engineering, time travel, and survival collide in a science-fiction adventure with a skyscraper-sized problem.
- Themes
- Time travel, Survival, Displacement
- Pacing
- Fast
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Arthur Chamberlain, is an engineer who works at the Metropolitan Tower in Midtown Manhatten. When the sun suddenly begins moving backwards in the sky he is the only person who realizes what this means. A flaw in the rock beneath the building has caused it to subside, but instead of moving in space, the building is falling backwards into the past.
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When it finally stops he and the other 2,000 people in the building find themselves stranded in a dangerous pre-Columbian Manhattan. Can he figure out how to get them back to their own time? More importantly can any of them survive long enough to get back home?
Time Out of Joint
Engineering, time travel, and survival collide in a science-fiction adventure with a skyscraper-sized problem.
Come here for
- A building-sized time slip seen through an engineer’s eyes
- A high-stakes question of survival and getting home
Expect
- A strange temporal disaster with a concrete engineering cause
- Danger in a Manhattan far removed from the present
Where it sits
| Time Travel Fiction | 99% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi | 55% |
| Sci-Fi Adventure | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi
- Space Opera
- Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
- Authors
- Murray Leinster
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- September 21, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Time travel · Survival · Displacement
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi