Identificação de livro ou conto - O edifício é de fato uma nave espacial [duplicata]

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Alguém pode me lembrar o nome de um conto de ficção científica que um homem mora em um prédio estranho e não pode sair. Ele começa a procurar outras coisas estranhas.

Eu não consigo me lembrar da história, mas sei que no final o prédio é uma espaçonave e voa para longe.

    
por Chapykiller 26.02.2015 / 22:05

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"Página inicial do navio" < Richard Matheson , publicado originalmente no julho de 1952 Galaxy , que você pode ler no Arquivo da Internet .

A história começa com Ruth, a esposa do narrador, reclamando que o zelador lhe dá "arrepios":

Her eyes narrowed. "You listen to me," she said. "That man has some design in being here. He's no janitor. I wouldn't be surprised if . . .

"If this apartment house were just a front for a gambling establishment. A hideout for public enemies one through fifteen. An abortion mill. A counterfeiter's lair. A murderer's rendezvous."

Ruth encontra os motores no porão e os mostra ao marido:

I felt a little detached from reality. East 7th Street, I told myself again. An apartment house on East 7th Street. It's all real.

I couldn't quite convince myself.

We stopped at the bottom. And I just stared. Engines, all right. Fantastic engines. And, as I looked at them it came to me what kind of engines they were. I'd read about science too, the non-fiction kind.

Eles se encontram trancados em seu apartamento. Eles tentam fugir:

"The engines!" Ruth suddenly cried. "They're starting them!"

"They have to warm up!" I made a wild guess. "We can still get out!"

I let go of Ruth and grabbed a chair. For some reason I felt that the windows had been automatically locked too.

I hurled the other chair through the glass. The vibrations were getting worse.

"Quick!" I shouted over the noise. "Out the fire escape! Maybe we can make it!"

O final:

And then the sky, which was growing light, grew dark. My head snapped around. Women were screaming their lungs out in terror. I looked in all directions.

Solid walls were blotting out the sky.

"Oh my God," Ruth said. "We can't get out. It's the whole block."

Then the rockets started.

    
27.02.2015 / 00:54