Loved itwhat I really liked about this book was his writing style which was very descriptive ... I liked it's pretty good as my first simat goes.
Ring Around the Sun (1953)
Others: Positive The world would never be the same again. First there was the razor blade that never wore out, then the everlasting light bulb, then the car that never broke down. The world's biggest industries were rapidly being squeezed out, the planet heading for economic collapse. People began to disappear—families, whole towns, vanished without a trace. Then Jay Vickers spun a child's top and found himself, literally, on another world...
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- 9780881848526
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- 203 pages
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