The Man Who Rocked the Earth

"The Man Who Rocked the Earth" by Arthur Cheney Train and Robert Williams Wood is an early 20th-century science fiction story, set during World War I. The novel plunges into a world gripped by war and on the edge of destruction at the turn of the 20th century. Bill Hood, a wireless operator, finds himself entangled with mysterious communications, and an anonymous entity named Pax announces a coming change to the Earth's rotation. Catastrophic earthquakes erupt, landmarks crumble, and the world faces strange atmospheric events. As military and scientific minds struggle to grasp the situation, the palpable sense of impending doom drives the narrative, suggesting that powerful, cosmic forces are connected to humanity's fate during this tumultuous period.