The Runaway Skyscraper by Murray Leinster
"The Runaway Skyscraper" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction short story first published in 1919. When the sun suddenly moves backwards across the sky, engineer Arthur Chamberlain realizes his Manhattan office building isn't moving through space—it's falling backward through time. The Metropolitan Tower and its 2000 inhabitants find themselves stranded thousands of years in pre-Columbian Manhattan. Now Chamberlain must organize the displaced office workers to survive while devising a daring plan
to return them home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Leinster, Murray, 1896-1975 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Runaway Skyscraper |
| Series Title | Produced from the February 22, 1919 issue of Argosy magazine. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Runaway_Skyscraper |
| Credits |
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| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 83.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 17355 |
| Release Date | Dec 19, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 13, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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