Allan Danzig 16 min read

Everyone had known about the Kiowa Fault for years, back when there was nothing interesting to know, no landslide, no tremor, just a line on a map east of Denver. Until the continent gave way.

Allan Danzig's 1963 story is a superb, quietly convincing hard-SF and post-apocalyptic tale of catastrophe. Sharp, plausible golden-age SF. Read it for a masterfully understated disaster story, told like sober history, of the day a great inland sea suddenly drowned the American heartland.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

16 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Wallace Wood