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A British sci fi alt history classic from a successor to Jules Verne

In the early hours of September 8, 1907, an earthquake of unprecedented power strikes London. Nelson's Column topples over. St. Paul's Cathedral is shaken to pieces. The Houses of Parliament subside into a great heap of rubble. Westminster Abbey partly collapses. Bridges across the Thames tumble into the river. And the Thames itself is blocked below Gravesend, cutting off shipping and threatening England with starvation.

So begins The Earthquake, a work of alt history and natural disaster fiction by William Holt-White from the early years of science fiction.

With appalling death, destruction and chaos in every direction, Britain's Prime Minister Blair declares martial law and begins restoring order. But the situation is worse than he can imagine. For evil forces in the person of Baron Von Prosen of Saxony are at work, plotting to permanently cripple England and bring the Empire down. Standing against Von Prosen is Blair's nephew, the Earl of Wilmers, and the woman Wilmers loves, American heiress Virginia Newcombe. After discovering the enormity of the scheme, Wilmers and Virginia must race against time and Von Prosen's henchmen to save England from violent uprising and economic collapse before it's too late.

Inspired by news reports of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, William Holt-White's The Earthquake moves with breakneck speed through the broken streets and perilous back alleys of London across the Atlantic to a breathtaking denouement in the United States. A popular disaster thriller in its day, it was the first of ten novels in the science-fiction, fantasy and mystery genres that Holt-White would write between 1906 and 1916, earning for himself a place alongside contemporaries H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. G. Wells as a successor to Jules Verne.


About the Author: WILLIAM HOLT-WHITE was born in Hanwell, Middlesex in 1878 and died in Eastry, Kent in 1937. He was a globetrotting correspondent and later editor for the London Daily Mail and wrote fiction in his spare time, mainly in the science-fiction and fantasy genres, alongside such contemporaries as H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs. His novels include The Earthquake (1906), The Man Who Stole Earth (1909), The Prime Minister's Secret (1910), Helen of All Time (1910) The Man Who Dreamed Right (1910), The Earth Stood Still (1912), The Woman Who Saved the World (1914) and The Super-Spy (1916). He also penned biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780992078652
  • Publisher: Conquistador Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Conquistador Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 284
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Science-Fiction Classic
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0992078652
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 467 gr


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