Maryland City, Maryland Jun 23, 2025 (Issuewire.com) - Was Isaac Asimov clever enough to craft a message like "Prepare for a new rotation pattern to tear the Earth apart in the north," and then use the very date of a fictional civilization's demise to carry that message to us? Isaac Asimov not only did that, but did it before he reached the age of thirty.
Ruth Leedy Carr studied Asimov's hints of a hollow Earth. disaster for many years before discovering his riddles. Her 1985 book Hollow Earth Apocalypse: Asimov's Warning prompted him to write an essay entitled "The Hollow Earth" (Past, Present and Future), in which he berated the unnamed author's work as well as the theory itself. But his final sentence, "So say I!" looked a lot like an SOS sign to her, and she was able to turn up fourteen words containing S, O and S in order, one of which contained SSOOSS. The invented word "crackpottery" suggested a hollow earthenware pot that is cracking. And then there was the thunderstorm that "rattled across a hollow world" in The Robots of Dawn.
On finding "Janet Jeppson" in the first two parts of "Tejan Popjens Lih" from Asimov's final novel, Carr could see that Asimov had used his wife's name to give a dramatic demonstration of his talent with riddles. His tiger and camel anagrams were also obvious. Anagram messages were discussed in his story "Irrelevance!" The example given started with "Tar Heel," where the first five letters spell "Earth." The names "Red, Slim" from "Youth" carried a command to "Reed mi riddles." The word "zapulniclate" from Azazel told us: "In a puzzle I can tell all."
Carl Sagan's novel Contact used the word "puzzling" along with two names that spoke of his own use of puzzles. In "Prebula, Switzerland" we find: "I want to warn you as to a planet- wide disaster, but brain is ruled by Azazel. So I use puzzles." In "Hubert Mandel" from "The Dying Night," a Dr. Urth mystery, Asimov informs us: "To rule the Earth you need to learn to bend and tear the human brane." Earth axis shifting is mentioned in the riddles of both Asimov and Sagan. Sagan even created a doomsday prophet whose words played on existing axis shift fears and whose name, Stefan Alexeivich Baruda, could spell "Earth axis shift" as well as "field reversal" and "Ruth Anne Leedi understands." A coming reversal of the Earth's magnetic field will reroute the powerful solar wind to new magnetic polar sites, setting off an axis shift.
Carr found it disturbing that "Earth" could be spelled from "Theptar" in Asimov's early story "Nightfall" which, with Robert Silverberg as coauthor, was expanded to a novel. Theptar was the month when civilization was predicted to fall and when, right on schedule, it did fall. One could see "tear the Earth apart" in this word, or even "Prepare, ere the Earth teareth apart." But what about "the nineteenth of Theptar," the precise date named in the prophecy? Here Carr was able to find:
"Prepare for a new rotation pattern to tear the Earth apart in the north." The fact that Asimov himself predicted in a 1980 interview (Mother Earth News) that civilization was unlikely to survive to 2010 suggested that he was taking on the role of a doomsday prophet. This was reinforced by his three hollow planet hints in the interview. In "Euphrosyne Durando, Cal" from "Cal" (Gold), the message appears to be:
"A polar hole shall end upper Europe, as you and Ed Cayce prophesy, R.A. Leedy." This appears to refer to the axis shift prophecies of a voice speaking through the medium Edgar Cayce, which the author has frequently quoted. In "Isidore Wellby, Shapur" from "Gimmicks Three" Asimov may have said: "Our world is hollow. Upper Europe will be wiped away by a polar hole." Likewise, in "Eleanor Arroway" Carl Sagan may have said: "Eye warn yew, allow no one near Norway."
Matching polar hole shift messages can be found in "Cal" (Gold). In "Winthrop Carver Cabwell we see: "A new rotation pattern will recarve each polar hole on hollow planet Earth." From his fiance "Hortense Hepzibah Lowot" we find:
"When ewe realize there is a new rotation pattern on hollow planet Earth, it will be too late to prepare. (It is essential to prepare now, as soon as possible.)" When Lowot is called "frontally concave" this calls to mind the concave inner surface of a hollow planet. More follows from Nightfall.
In "Veloran, Sten" we find: "One learns never to reveal a reversal's near." In "Athor, Nyilda" we find: "Yoo hold a hollo Irth in yoor hand, Rooth Ann." In "Onos, Dovim, Trey, Patru, Tano, Sitha" we find:
"I, Asimov, say Ruth Anne understands that a noo rotation pattern on Earth is soon to destroy northern Europe." Through "Henry J. Lafkowitz" in "Unto the Fourth Generation" Asimov tells us:
"Laff if yew want to, yet I know the hollow Earth theory iz no joke."
About the Author: Ruth Leedy Carr attended Indiana University, where she majored in journalism and psychology and covered stories in many scientific fields. She has written eight books on polar hole shifting, of which two Florida Benton books were republished by Saucerian Press. She was proclaimed by UFO researcher William L. Moore to be the world's foremost proponent of the hollow Earth theory.
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