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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aCox, Irving E.,
_d1917-2001
245 1 0 _aAdolescents Only
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2010
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy January 1953.
500 _aRelease date is 2010-06-02
508 _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Adolescents Only" by Irving E. Cox, Jr. is a science fiction story published in the early 1950s. The narrative centers on the theme of adolescence and the unforeseen consequences of giving young people knowledge and power beyond their years. It explores the chaotic interplay of education, responsibility, and the adolescent desire for experimentation, set against a backdrop of fantastical events triggered by a mysterious rocket and its contents. The story follows Gary Elvin, a disillusioned teacher who finds a rocket that contains strange colored spheres. When high school students inadvertently consume these spheres during a party, they gain vast knowledge and abilities, leading to wild experiments that wreak havoc on their small town. As the situation spirals out of control, Elvin becomes both an observer and a participant in the resulting chaos. Ultimately, the students, realizing the gravity of their actions, find a way to reverse the events, leaving Elvin to confront the challenge of guiding youth towards responsibility and maturity without losing sight of their potential. The interplay of humor, fantasy, and moral lessons makes this tale a reflective examination of adolescence and its impact on society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aTeachers -- Fiction
653 _aCalifornia -- Fiction
653 _aTeenagers -- Fiction
653 _aHigh school students -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy January 1953.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32651
999 _c73497
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