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The Second Atlantis
Ace Books, 1965. Cover code F-335, paperback original novel. The story of the "big one" hitting California. "The San Andreas fault...the Earthquake Zone of North America! Someday, inevitably, this area must open up, must create another Atlantis....This is the story of how that might happen....It is a novel of tomorrow, a prevision of what might come. It is a prophetic novel with an unforgettable impact."
- GenresScience Fiction
123 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1965
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Robert Moore Williams
225 books10 followersThe prolific author Robert Moore Williams published more than 150 novels and short stories under his given name as well as a variety of pseudonyms including John S. Browning, H.H. Harmon, Robert Moore, Russell Storm and E.K. Jarvis.
Williams was born in Farmington, Missouri and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He had a full-time writing career from 1937 through 1972 and cut his teeth on such publications as Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Astounding, Thrilling Wonder and Startling.
In 1955 Williams cranked out The Chaos Fighters, the first of 30 novels he would write over the next 15 years. These novels include the Jongor and ,Zanthar series. His most unusual book, however, is one that is labeled as fiction, but is actually an autobiography: Love is Forever - We Are for Tonight (Curtis 06101, 1970). In this short, 141-page work Williams presents a description of his childhood and then discusses his experimentation with hallucinogenic gasses, Dianetics and 1950s-era communes.
Williams married Margaret Jelley in 1938 and they had one child. The couple divorced in 1958. According to the Social Security Death Index, Williams died in May of 1977 in Dateland, Arizona.
Williams was born in Farmington, Missouri and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He had a full-time writing career from 1937 through 1972 and cut his teeth on such publications as Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Astounding, Thrilling Wonder and Startling.
In 1955 Williams cranked out The Chaos Fighters, the first of 30 novels he would write over the next 15 years. These novels include the Jongor and ,Zanthar series. His most unusual book, however, is one that is labeled as fiction, but is actually an autobiography: Love is Forever - We Are for Tonight (Curtis 06101, 1970). In this short, 141-page work Williams presents a description of his childhood and then discusses his experimentation with hallucinogenic gasses, Dianetics and 1950s-era communes.
Williams married Margaret Jelley in 1938 and they had one child. The couple divorced in 1958. According to the Social Security Death Index, Williams died in May of 1977 in Dateland, Arizona.
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March 10, 2024
This is a short (it's only 6 & 1/3" tall) disaster novel, a 40-cent Ace original from 1965 with a nice Gray Morrow cover, about how California finally succumbs to the San Andreas fault and how it impacts Jim, Miriam, and Susan Gray. The ending gets a little metaphysically new agey, as I recall, but it wasn't a bad story. "When we walk west, we do not walk alone," said Prophet softly.
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