And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson:
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Enjoyable tongue-in-cheek novel about aliens looking for a new home, who come to Earth and decide to take the small town of Superior, Ohio up into the heavens. You can find the book on Gutenberg at And Then the Town Took Off.


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The idea that it is possible to gather up enough of the asteroids in the solar system to "build" a planet out of the scraps.

 

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