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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Pent House | ||
| An island in the sky - a hermetically sealed skyscraper isolated entirely from its surroundings. |
A wealthy man creates a mystery skyscraper - the penthouse apartment is to be sealed for five years with no means of escape.
| "...I am building, and am just about finished with it, a seventy-story apartment house. On the top is a pent-house which is rather unusual in architecture and size. It is really most complete in every way, and entirely self-sustaining as far as all service is concerned. That gives it complete isolation. It is really a lonely island in the air; but instead of a sky for a roof it has a roof of glass, opaque glass of a very satisfactory thickness. Underneath the floor, in something that might be termed a basement, I have built storeroom which are very large.
 (The Pent House from Amazing Stories, December 1932)
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by David H. Keller. Published by Amazing Stories in 1932 Additional resources -
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I'm strongly reminded of this story, in which people were voluntarily placed in a habitat for a full year, to simulate what it would be to live on Mars:
Not an exact match, but close. Read more at NPR.
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