Read this story decades ago. I guess it's sci-fi. All I remember about the story is the end - in which the planet Earth tilts. maybe that's tilt's "again," since it's already tilted(I believe I've read the tilt is what causes us to have seasons).
Read this story decades ago. I guess it's sci-fi. All I remember about the story is the end - in which the planet Earth tilts. maybe that's tilt's "again," since it's already tilted(I believe I've read the tilt is what causes us to have seasons).
Free association turns up Ursula K Leguin's "A swiftly tilting planet". But that doesn't seem likely; the planet isn't earth.
I believe I've read the tilt is what causes us to have seasons
Primarily. The tilt is also why the seasons are reversed between the northern and sourthern hemispheres.
However, the Earth's orbit around the Sun is elliptical and that would probably yield some seasonality even without the tilt.
There is a dead tree book from the golden age of SF, where the MC is sentenced to a time pyramid. When he emerges life has changed drastically. The "girls" have attempted to affect the tilt of the planet with devastating results. Title? Author? - nada.
Ive read several apocalyptic stories about the Earths axis tilting but they were all on survivalist websites not here.
I could be wrong since it's been a while from when I last read it but didn't "Kinetic" on here end with slight planetary tilt adjustment when the mc unveiled the new dual moon set up he created to replace the old moon?
I could be wrong since it's been a while from when I last read it but didn't "Kinetic" on here end with slight planetary tilt adjustment when the mc unveiled the new dual moon set up he created to replace the old moon?
I think each of the three planets that were created had a different tilt. I don't think the MC changed the tilt of the original earth.
In Kinetic, towards the end of the story (last chapter), the protagonist "cancels" Mars and replaces it with two planets having markedly different tilts. He does the same thing with the Moon, replacing it with another earth-like planet that also has a slightly different tilt (iirc), resulting in our system's having two double-planets. Earlier in the story the protagonist discovered that there was another like him in the galaxy, thousands of years prior, whom he conjectured had canceled the angular momentum of all planets in that person's solar system in revenge against their society for some unknown wrong.
MAYBE....Aftermath by Al steiner, the only other story i can think of similar is A Big Shiny Blue Marble by TaLtos6 over on Lit
I thought Steiner's "Aftermath" chronicled what happened after a gigantic meteor hit Earth. No tilting needed, things were bad enough already.
~ JBB
Might be one of the asteroid stories. Read one on here that had an asteroid hit in the Pacific. Forget if the end mention anything about the tilt changing. Was not Aftermath.
The movie Damnation Ally has the Earth tilting after a nuclear war. I don't know if the story by Zelazny had that as a plot point.
The Earth's magnetic pole is shifting at this moment, about 60 kilometers a year. Could this be hat you are thinking of?
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About 40 years ago there was a book called Down To A Sunless Sea where the Earth's axis tilted due to a nuclear war. The premise was the Soviet Union nukes the US. Then about 6 hours later our nukes hit them. Then a few hours later western Europe gets hit. All of the areas hit were facing the same direction into space as they got hit and the Earth tilted like a gyroscope.