Runaway Skyscraper

Manhattan, 1919. Arthur Chamberlain is an engineer whose one-man firm is barely surviving, nursing an unrequited crush on his secretary Estelle. Then his office building slips through the fourth dimension. When it crashes back to earth, Manhattan has become a primeval wilderness. Madison Square is filled with wigwams. The year is now ten thousand BC. Now Arthur must engineer a way to send the building back to its own time before the ice age swallows them all. This is early pulp science fiction at its most gleefully inventive: a love story, an adventure, and a technical puzzle all tangled together. Leinster writes with genuine wonder about the fourth dimension, and Arthur's methodical problem-solving feels fresh even a century later. For readers who want the original time travel stories, before the genre codified its rules.