“Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol. 7, No.1 (Winter, 1933). Cover art by Leo Morey for “The Second Deluge” by Garrett P. Serviss.
On the cover is an illustration of a battleship that has been cut loose by sweeping waves and runs down the lofty New York Municipal tower where crowds had sought refuge from the rising flood waters.
“The late Professor Garrett P. Serviss, the well-known scientist-author hits upon the effects which would be produced on humanity by a second deluge. It is an impressive tale, and not a whit more improbable than the first Noachian deluge of Biblical days. Only the setting is modern, and the second great ark is, of course, vastly different from that used by Noah. . .” [From the Editor’s Note]
“An undersized, lean, wizen-faced man, with an immense bald head, as round and smooth and shining as a great soap-bubble . . . Cosmo Versal sat bent over a writing desk with a huge sheet of cardboard before him, on which he was swiftly drawing geometrical and trigonometrical figures. Compasses, T-squares, rulers, protractors, and ellipsographs obeyed the touch of his fingers as if inspired with life. . .
“My God!” he said. “That’s it! That Lick photograph of the Lord Rosse nebula is its very image, except that there’s no electric fire in it. The same great whirl of outer spirals, and then comes the awful central mass – and we’re going to plunge straight into it. Then quintrillions of tons of water will condense on the earth and cover it like a universal cloudburst. And then good-by to the human race – unless –unless I, Cosmo Versal, inspired by science, can save a remnant to repeople the planet after the catastrophe . . .” [Quoting from the story].
“Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol. 7, No.1 (Winter, 1933). Cover art by Leo Morey for “The Second Deluge” by Garrett P. Serviss.
On the cover is an illustration of a battleship that has been cut loose by sweeping waves and runs down the lofty New York Municipal tower where crowds had sought refuge from the rising flood waters.
“The late Professor Garrett P. Serviss, the well-known scientist-author hits upon the effects which would be produced on humanity by a second deluge. It is an impressive tale, and not a whit more improbable than the first Noachian deluge of Biblical days. Only the setting is modern, and the second great ark is, of course, vastly different from that used by Noah. . .” [From the Editor’s Note]
“An undersized, lean, wizen-faced man, with an immense bald head, as round and smooth and shining as a great soap-bubble . . . Cosmo Versal sat bent over a writing desk with a huge sheet of cardboard before him, on which he was swiftly drawing geometrical and trigonometrical figures. Compasses, T-squares, rulers, protractors, and ellipsographs obeyed the touch of his fingers as if inspired with life. . .
“My God!” he said. “That’s it! That Lick photograph of the Lord Rosse nebula is its very image, except that there’s no electric fire in it. The same great whirl of outer spirals, and then comes the awful central mass – and we’re going to plunge straight into it. Then quintrillions of tons of water will condense on the earth and cover it like a universal cloudburst. And then good-by to the human race – unless –unless I, Cosmo Versal, inspired by science, can save a remnant to repeople the planet after the catastrophe . . .” [Quoting from the story].