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Title: Operation Earthworm

Author: Joe Archibald

Release Date: July 3, 2009 [EBook #29303]

Language: English

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_Here he is again, the irrepressible Septimus Spink, in a tale as
rollicking as an elder giant juggling the stars and the planets in
his great, golden hands and laughing mirthfully as one tiny
world--our own--goes spinning away from him into caverns measureless
to man. With specifications drawn to scale, Joe Archibald, whose
versatility with the quill never ceases to amaze us, has managed
with slangy insouciance to achieve a rare triumph over space and
time, and to aureole Spink in a resplendent sunburst of imperishable
renown._

operation
earthworm

_by ... Joe Archibald_

Septimus Spink didn't need to read Jules Verne's "Journey to
the Center of the Earth." He had more amazing ideas of his own.

_Interplanetary Press, Circa 2022--Septimus Spink, the first Earthman to
reach and return from New Mu in a flying saucer, threw a hydroactive
bombshell into the meeting of the leading cosmogonists at the University
of Cincinnatus today. The amazing Spink, uninvited, crashed this august
body of scientists and laughed at a statement made by Professor Apsox
Zalpha as to the origin of Earth and other planets._

_"That theory is older than the discovery of the antiquated zipper,"
Spink orated. "Ha, you big plexidomes still believe the Earth was
condensed from a filament, and was ejected by the sun under the
gravitational attraction of a big star passing close to the Earth's
surface. First it was a liquid drop and cooling solidified it after a
period of a few million years. You citizens still think it has a liquid
core. Some of you think it is pretty hot inside like they had atomic
furnaces all fired up. Ha, the exterior ain't so hot either what with
taxes we have to pay after seven wars."_

_Professor Yzylch Mgogy