The Runaway Skyscraper
The Runaway Skyscraper is a science fiction novella by Murray Leinster first published in 1919.
Arthur Chamberlain has problems. His one-man engineering firm is faltering and his pretty secretary Estelle barely notices him.
But these problems are put aside when his Manhattan office building falls into the fourth dimension. Madison Square is filled with wigwams and it’s up to Arthur to engineer a way to make his building to fall back to the future.
The Runaway Skyscraper first appeared in the February 22, 1919 issue of Argosy magazine.
Total Running Time (TRT): 1 hour, 42 min.
Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
