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The Runaway Skyscraper

by Murray Leinster

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It begins when the clock on the Metropolitan Tower starts running backward. Soon the whole building, with its clerks, a young stenographer named Estelle and a cheerful bachelor longing for excitement, is sliding into the past toward a Manhattan untouched by any city, and the stranded office workers must find a way to survive and return.

An early Leinster story from Argosy in 1919, a landmark of pulp time travel. Download the free EPUB.

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