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description: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone too are Grants Tomb and Grand Central Station and all hell is breaking loose in New York City!Whats the story? One grizzled old newspaper reporter known simply as Popa role made for Walter Matthauis on top of it . . . and better stay there because his livelihood is on the line. If Pop fails to get to the bottom of the vanishing landmarks his job will disappear as welland land in the hands of the newspaper publishers son-in-law.Any cub reporter could find a someone breaking the laws of the city but tracking down a suspect whos breaking the laws of physics is a different story altogether. But Pops like a dog with a bone and he wont let go until he gets at the truth . . . no matter how strange or astounding it is. In the end he gets a lesson in larceny proving that when you get down to business size really does matter.By the spring of 1938 Hubbards stature as a writer was well established. As author and critic Robert Silverberg puts it: he had become a master of the art of narrative. Hubbards editors urged him to apply his gift for succinct characterization original plot deft pacing and imaginative action to a genre that was new and essentially foreign to himscience fiction and fantasy. The rest is Sci-Fi history.Also features the science fiction adventures Battle of the Wizards in which an epic battle between science and magic unfolds with an entire planet hanging in the balance and Hubbards first published foray into science fiction and fantasy The Dangerous Dimension the story of a mathematics professor who discovers an equation that enables him to teleport anywhere he can imagine . . . even if he doesnt want to go.
language: English
title: The Professor Was a Thief
publisher: Galaxy Audio