
FOREWORD
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Erica Jacobson, Sandra Brown,
ILLUSTRATIONS - "THEY MEANT TO CARRY THE ARK WITH A RUSH" - "THE GREAT BATTLESHIP … CRASHED, PROW ON, INTO THE STEEL-RIBBED WALLS" - "IT IS A PROPHECY OF THE SECOND DELUGE" - "AND THEN THEY FLOATED NEAR THE MONUMENTAL TOMB OF GENERAL GRANT" - THE SECOND DELUGE - CHAPTER I - COSMO VERSÁL
THE WORLD IS TO BE DROWNED!
CHAPTER II - MOCKING AT FATE
CHAPTER III - THE FIRST DROPS OF THE DELUGE
CHAPTER IV - THE WORLD SWEPT WITH TERROR
CHAPTER V - THE THIRD SIGN
CHAPTER VI - SELECTING THE FLOWER OF MANKIND
CHAPTER VII - THE WATERS BEGIN TO RISE
A brilliant but reclusive scientist, whose mind whirls like the gears of his cluttered workshop, spends his days buried in equations, globes and arcane diagrams. Surrounded by towering shelves of dusty tomes and walls plastered with celestial photographs, he feverishly pieces together a pattern that hints at a looming catastrophe—what he dubs the “Second Deluge.” His breakthrough comes when a strange nebular image, captured in an old photograph, seems to echo the very forces that could reshape the world.
The narrative follows his desperate race to convince a skeptical world that a new flood of unimaginable scale is imminent. As he battles bureaucracy, doubt, and his own obsession, listeners are drawn into a tense blend of hard‑won science, looming disaster, and human drama. The story asks whether knowledge alone can avert a fate written in the stars, keeping you on edge as the first act unfolds.
Language
en
Duration
~8 hours (509K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2005-10-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1851–1929
A newspaper science writer turned astronomy popularizer, he helped everyday readers imagine the planets, comets, and the wider universe at a time when modern space science was still taking shape. He is also remembered for early science fiction that blended scientific curiosity with adventurous storytelling.
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