- Science Fiction in English, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
Poly-disciplined scientist, Herbert Alan Boardman, figures out Earth's cycles of pole shifts and wants to warn the world. He attempts to get attention by LARPing an assassination attempt on the President of the United States, using paraffin wax bullets. Later, people congregate in Ngaia City in Africa, a pivot point (with the other pivot being in the Pacific), to ride out the pole shift.
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Unpretentious, epic, classical in form and raw.
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Allan W. Eckert
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 635
- Publisher
- Popular Library, Sphere, Backinprint.com
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780445085978
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