“Book Descriptions: An imaginative and influential short story from an early contributor to the science fiction genre An insight into early science fiction, full of marvelous imagination and rare scientific genius reaching far beyond the author's time. A comet approaching the Sun causes a tremendous solar explosion, with horrific consequences for Earth and its people. In San Francisco, as daylight, and the Sun’s dangerous rays approach, the scientist who predicted the collision and the narrator attempt escape in a balloon.” DRIVE