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The Crack of Doom

by Robert Cromie

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First published
1895
Pages
144
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  1. The Universe a Mistake!

    11:32

  2. A Strange Experiment

    14:12

  3. "It is Good to be Alive"

    14:36

  4. George Delaney - Deceased

    11:31

  5. The Murder Club

    12:16

  6. A Telegraphic Telegram

    13:31

  7. Guilty!

    13:44

  8. The Woking Mystery

    10:50

  9. Cui Bono?

    15:14

  10. Force - A Remedy

    11:48

  11. Morituri Te Salutant

    6:44

  12. "No Death - Save in Life"

    15:04

  13. Miss Metford's Plan

    11:52

  14. Rockingham to the Sharks

    16:10

  15. "If Not Too Late"

    22:32

  16. £5000 to Detain the Ship

    22:11

  17. "This Earth Shall Die"

    12:26

  18. The Flight

    15:13

  19. The Catastrophe

    13:27

  20. Conclusion

    8:21

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Robert Cromie imagined something startling for 1895: a scientist who has learned to unlock the energy bound inside the atom, and who means to use it to wipe out a world he considers beyond saving. Arthur Marcel meets the coldly brilliant Herbert Brande aboard ship, is drawn into his secret society, and grows uneasy as the group's true aim comes clear, even while he falls for Brande's sister Natalie. The novel is remembered as an early and eerily prescient vision of atomic destruction, decades before physicists made such fears real. Part scientific romance and part race against a doomsday plot, it moves with genuine tension. This free PDF and EPUB edition revives a landmark of early science fiction.

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Robert Cromie

Robert Cromie (1855-1907) was an Irish journalist and novelist remembered as a pioneer of science fiction, whose stories anticipated space travel and atomic power.

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First published
1895
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
144
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook