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Children's short story about material that accelerates away from gravity
Utopian society based on the alphabetHas anyone read short story about a boy on a generation ship with an AI that is raising children?“The Man Who Could Have Had Love” - at least that's how I remember the titleChildren's Ghost/Horror short story collection from 1970sIdentify Title & Author, old short story about a man who becomes “unnoticeable”Short story published in a magazine about spider-women on an alien planet?Old story about a professor who invents a metal hoop that generates a spacewarpShort story about a magical rose that keeps “the horde” away from a palaceChildren's story series about a chemistry setA collection of short stories with one story focusing on a spot where time stands stillShort story about an asteroid colony where the plumber is an unclean/outcast
I am looking for a children's short story about a scientist that invents a material that is pushed away from other matter. It accelerates away from gravity instead of towards it.
He makes several small (golf ball sized?) spheres of the material. He could wrap his fingers around a ball, but it would push his fingers out away from it, so it was hard to hold onto. If he let go of one indoors, it would zoom up to the ceiling.
If one got loose outdoors, it would zoom directly upward into the sky. Within a few hours it would leave the Earth-moon system. After a few days, it would zoom away from the Solar System constantly accelerating. After a million years, it would leave the galaxy.
He could put several balls into a chest harness that would let him hover. He had to balance the outward pull of the material against the gravitational pull of the Earth on his body. He also had one or more of his children hold onto to him.
One of his children wears a harness that just balances his weight against the upward acceleration so he can appear to be on the ground, but is actually slightly hovering. The child uses the harness to win events at a track and field competition.
This is not the movie Flubber, or the movie, The Absentminded Professor. It is a written short story.
The story was published before the mid 1980's. Maybe as far back as the 1960's.
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I am looking for a children's short story about a scientist that invents a material that is pushed away from other matter. It accelerates away from gravity instead of towards it.
He makes several small (golf ball sized?) spheres of the material. He could wrap his fingers around a ball, but it would push his fingers out away from it, so it was hard to hold onto. If he let go of one indoors, it would zoom up to the ceiling.
If one got loose outdoors, it would zoom directly upward into the sky. Within a few hours it would leave the Earth-moon system. After a few days, it would zoom away from the Solar System constantly accelerating. After a million years, it would leave the galaxy.
He could put several balls into a chest harness that would let him hover. He had to balance the outward pull of the material against the gravitational pull of the Earth on his body. He also had one or more of his children hold onto to him.
One of his children wears a harness that just balances his weight against the upward acceleration so he can appear to be on the ground, but is actually slightly hovering. The child uses the harness to win events at a track and field competition.
This is not the movie Flubber, or the movie, The Absentminded Professor. It is a written short story.
The story was published before the mid 1980's. Maybe as far back as the 1960's.
story-identification short-stories childrens-novel
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I am looking for a children's short story about a scientist that invents a material that is pushed away from other matter. It accelerates away from gravity instead of towards it.
He makes several small (golf ball sized?) spheres of the material. He could wrap his fingers around a ball, but it would push his fingers out away from it, so it was hard to hold onto. If he let go of one indoors, it would zoom up to the ceiling.
If one got loose outdoors, it would zoom directly upward into the sky. Within a few hours it would leave the Earth-moon system. After a few days, it would zoom away from the Solar System constantly accelerating. After a million years, it would leave the galaxy.
He could put several balls into a chest harness that would let him hover. He had to balance the outward pull of the material against the gravitational pull of the Earth on his body. He also had one or more of his children hold onto to him.
One of his children wears a harness that just balances his weight against the upward acceleration so he can appear to be on the ground, but is actually slightly hovering. The child uses the harness to win events at a track and field competition.
This is not the movie Flubber, or the movie, The Absentminded Professor. It is a written short story.
The story was published before the mid 1980's. Maybe as far back as the 1960's.
story-identification short-stories childrens-novel
asked Jun 23 at 3:08
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I am looking for a children's short story about a scientist that invents a material that is pushed away from other matter. It accelerates away from gravity instead of towards it.
He makes several small (golf ball sized?) spheres of the material. He could wrap his fingers around a ball, but it would push his fingers out away from it, so it was hard to hold onto. If he let go of one indoors, it would zoom up to the ceiling.
If one got loose outdoors, it would zoom directly upward into the sky. Within a few hours it would leave the Earth-moon system. After a few days, it would zoom away from the Solar System constantly accelerating. After a million years, it would leave the galaxy.
He could put several balls into a chest harness that would let him hover. He had to balance the outward pull of the material against the gravitational pull of the Earth on his body. He also had one or more of his children hold onto to him.
One of his children wears a harness that just balances his weight against the upward acceleration so he can appear to be on the ground, but is actually slightly hovering. The child uses the harness to win events at a track and field competition.
This is not the movie Flubber, or the movie, The Absentminded Professor. It is a written short story.
The story was published before the mid 1980's. Maybe as far back as the 1960's.
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This is "Peter Graves" by William Pene du Bois. The anti-gravity material is called Furloy.
It's a short book though, not a short story. Published in 1950. My copy is from 1972.
The cover image shows the harness you mention (with golf club head covers holding the Furloy balls, and a fishing rod safety tether).
And here's a scan of an interior illustration showing the track and field competition. The boy just hops gently and flies way over the high jump crossbar.
It's a wonderful book, just short in my estimation of the same author's superlative "21 Balloons"
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This is "Peter Graves" by William Pene du Bois. The anti-gravity material is called Furloy.
It's a short book though, not a short story. Published in 1950. My copy is from 1972.
The cover image shows the harness you mention (with golf club head covers holding the Furloy balls, and a fishing rod safety tether).
And here's a scan of an interior illustration showing the track and field competition. The boy just hops gently and flies way over the high jump crossbar.
It's a wonderful book, just short in my estimation of the same author's superlative "21 Balloons"
answered Jun 23 at 3:21
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This is "Peter Graves" by William Pene du Bois. The anti-gravity material is called Furloy.
It's a short book though, not a short story. Published in 1950. My copy is from 1972.
The cover image shows the harness you mention (with golf club head covers holding the Furloy balls, and a fishing rod safety tether).
And here's a scan of an interior illustration showing the track and field competition. The boy just hops gently and flies way over the high jump crossbar.
It's a wonderful book, just short in my estimation of the same author's superlative "21 Balloons"
answered Jun 23 at 3:21
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This is "Peter Graves" by William Pene du Bois. The anti-gravity material is called Furloy.
It's a short book though, not a short story. Published in 1950. My copy is from 1972.
The cover image shows the harness you mention (with golf club head covers holding the Furloy balls, and a fishing rod safety tether).
And here's a scan of an interior illustration showing the track and field competition. The boy just hops gently and flies way over the high jump crossbar.
It's a wonderful book, just short in my estimation of the same author's superlative "21 Balloons"
answered Jun 23 at 3:21
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This is "Peter Graves" by William Pene du Bois. The anti-gravity material is called Furloy.
It's a short book though, not a short story. Published in 1950. My copy is from 1972.
The cover image shows the harness you mention (with golf club head covers holding the Furloy balls, and a fishing rod safety tether).
And here's a scan of an interior illustration showing the track and field competition. The boy just hops gently and flies way over the high jump crossbar.
It's a wonderful book, just short in my estimation of the same author's superlative "21 Balloons"
answered Jun 23 at 3:21
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