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    Operation Earthworm
    Operation Earthworm
    Operation Earthworm
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    Operation Earthworm

    By Joe Archibald

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Operation Earthworm
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    Joe Archibald

    Joseph Stopford Archibald (1898-1986) was a fiction magazine and television writer. He was born in Newington, New Hampshire. Though too old to serve in the military during WWII, Archibald volunteered as an entertainer, as a trick cartoonist and field director for the American Red Cross. He passed away at the age of 87 in Barrington, NH in 1986.

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      Operation Earthworm - Joe Archibald

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Operation Earthworm, by Joe Archibald

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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.

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      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 Mgogylvy, of the University of Juno, took violent exception to Septimus Spink's derisive attitude and stoutly defended the theory of adiabatic expansion. It was at this juncture that Spink practically disintegrated the meeting.

      For the last seventy years, he orated, "all we have thought about was outer space. All that we have been hepped up about is what is

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