The Professor Was a Thief
Primed for promotion to the World-Journal city editor, grizzled
senior reporter Pop is stunned when it's announced that young Leonard
Caulborn, the publisher's son-in-law, will get the post. Worse, the lad
wants him out. In protest, Pop demands to be given a beat again and gets his wish... only now he's got just two days to find the "real" story
about a dead-end assignment — a month-old physics lecture — or be fired.
When Pop starts searching for the story's source, a professor named Pertwee, he lands in the middle of the story of a century after the Empire State Building, Grant's Tomb and Grand Central Station all disappear.
Apparently, Pertwee's the mastermind behind it all. But Pop soon
discovers that, instead of inventing a new way to blow things up, the
professor may be doing quite the opposite.
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Category: Science Fiction, Short stories
Release date: 2009
L. Ron Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911–1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard (and often referred to by his initials, LRH), was an American pulp fiction author turned religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology.