Project Gutenberg 2013-02-16 Public domain in the USA. 83 Wilson, Richard 1920 1987 Wilson, Dick Halibut, Edward And Then the Town Took Off Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "And Then the Town Took Off" by Richard Wilson is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story centers around the town of Superior, Ohio, which unexpectedly rises into the sky, leaving behind chaos and confusion for its residents. The protagonist, Don Cort, finds himself trapped in this airborne town and must navigate a bizarre situation filled with eccentric townspeople, including a crackpot professor who may hold the key to their predicament. The opening of the novel introduces the shocking and surreal event of Superior lifting off the ground, setting a mysterious and humorous tone. The narrative starts with the shock from a truck driver, who discovers the town missing, leading to a chain of events that includes the involvement of the military and local authorities. As the townspeople adapt to their new reality, Cort must confront the challenges of being stranded while unraveling the scientific absurdities behind their levitation, all while developing interrelationships with various intriguing characters, including the mayor and the professor. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/42111/42111-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction Human-alien encounters -- Fiction Ohio -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 248097 248106 2024-09-17T15:24:41.931355 2023-09-18T10:07:05.411689 text/html text/html 247964 2014-04-24T10:25:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 226989 2014-04-24T10:32:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 236380 2024-09-17T15:24:46.342358 application/epub+zip 239500 2024-09-17T15:24:42.611389 application/epub+zip 158900 2024-09-17T15:24:42.261364 application/epub+zip 333045 2024-09-17T15:24:49.208330 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 316207 2024-09-17T15:24:46.018369 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 235763 2022-09-19T09:10:18.337549 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 231421 231326 2024-09-17T15:24:41.261382 2023-09-18T10:07:04.792675 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 231125 2014-04-24T10:25:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 90803 2014-04-24T10:32:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 231120 2014-04-24T10:24:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 90788 2014-04-24T10:32:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21406 2024-09-17T15:24:49.343306 application/rdf+xml 31568 2024-09-17T15:24:42.346342 image/jpeg 4941 2024-09-17T15:24:42.304354 image/jpeg 227453 2024-09-17T15:24:41.959344 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia