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    The Coming of the Ice
    The Coming of the Ice
    The Coming of the Ice
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    The Coming of the Ice

    By Green Peyton and Frank Rudolph Paul

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Coming of the Ice
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    Green Peyton

    Green Peyton Wertenbaker (23 December 1907 - 26 July 1968) was a U.S. editor and author. Born the son of American football coach William C. “Bill” Wertenbaker and hailing from a literary and professional family—his brother Charles Wertenbaker (1901-1955) was a renowned Time journalist and author, and his niece is the noted playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker—Peyton began his writing career as a science fiction writer. One of the pioneers of Hugo Gernsback’s development of “Scientifiction” (scientific fiction), he wrote his first story at the age of 15, The Man from the Atom (1923), which centers on an invention that allows a man to grow so vast and so quickly that he moves beyond into the macrocosm and is unable to return to Earth. A number of other SF stories followed between 1926 and 1930. In the early 1930’s he turned to writing regional novels: Black Cabin (1933) and Rain on the Mountain (1934), both as Green Peyton (his given names), which became his byline of preference. He also served on the editorial board of Fortune magazine from 1933 to 1938, and became a contributing editor to Time Magazine in 1939. During World War II he served as an air combat intelligence officer in the Pacific aboard the USS Suwannee and his experiences formed the basis for 5,000 Miles Toward Tokyo (1945). In 1950 he became involved with the fledgling Aerospace industry, returning to some degree to his first love. He assisted Dr. Hubertus Strughold with The Green and Red Planet (1953), a physiological study of the possibility of life on Mars, and wrote the scripts for a series of thirteen half-hour TV films on the human problems of space flight, Doctors in Space (1958). In 1958 he joined NASA as a speechwriter, eventually becoming chief historian of the Aerospace Medical Division. He completed Fifty Years of Aerospace Medicine (1968) just before his death.

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      The Coming of the Ice - Green Peyton

      Project Gutenberg's The Coming of the Ice, by G. Peyton Wertenbaker

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      Title: The Coming of the Ice

      Author: G. Peyton Wertenbaker

      Illustrator: Frank Rudolph Paul

      Release Date: October 19, 2008 [EBook #26967]

      Language: English

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      The Coming of the Ice

      By G. Peyton Wertenbaker

      Strange men these creatures of the hundredth century ...

      Copyright, 1926, by E. P. Co., Inc.

      Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories July 1961 and was first published in Amazing Stories June 1926. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note.

      A Classic Reprint from AMAZING STORIES, June, 1926

      Introduction by Sam Moskowitz

      One of the gravest editorial problems faced by the editors of AMAZING STORIES when they launched its first issue, dated April, 1926, was the problem of finding or developing authors who could write the type of story they needed. As a stop-gap, the first two issues of AMAZING STORIES were devoted entirely to reprints. But reprints were to constitute a declining portion of the publication's contents for the following four years. The first new story the magazine bought was Coming of the Ice, by G. Peyton Wertenbaker, which appeared in its third issue. Wertenbaker was not technically a newcomer to science fiction, since he had sold his first story to Gernsback's SCIENCE AND INVENTION, The Man From the Atom, in 1923 when he was only 16! Now, at the ripe old age of 19, he was appearing in the world's first truly complete science fiction magazine.

      The scope of his imagination was truly impressive and, despite the author's youth, Coming of the Ice builds to a climax of considerable power.

      Wertenbaker, under the name of Green Peyton, went on to sell his first novel, Black Cabin, in 1933. He eventually became an authority on the Southwest with many regional volumes to his credit: For God and Texas, America's Heartland, The Southwest, and San Antonio, City of the Sun. But he never lost his interest in space travel, assisting Hubertus Strughold on the writing of The Green and Red Planet, a scientific appraisal of the possibilities of life on the planet Mars published in 1953. He also served for a time as London

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