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    Operation Earthworm
    Operation Earthworm
    Operation Earthworm
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    Operation Earthworm

    By Joe Archibald

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateSep 16, 2016
    ISBN9781515406792
    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

      Operation Earthworm

      by Joe Archibald

      © 2016 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / Vadimsadovski

      Positronic Publishing

      PO Box 632

      Floyd VA 24091

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-0679-2

      First Positronic Publishing Edition

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      Operation Earthworm

      by Joe Archibald

      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.

      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

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