Edit: The long shot worked! I was thinking of The Edge of the World, by John Gordon. archive.org/details/edgeofworl…
Extreme #AskFedi long shot, I’m thinking of a Young Adult novel published some time in the 1980s.
It’s a portal fantasy set in what appears to be mid-C20 rural UK. A young boy is telekinetic and learns that using his power causes a dimension slip. He teaches the skill to a girl. Together they slip to a place where they find the wreck of a legendary lost wartime fighter plane that had dimension slipped when the pilot (an ancestor or uncle?) desperately tried to telekinetically control his crippled aircraft. There was some kind of evil overlady who tasks the protagonists with something involving an endless stairway into the sky. I think it was titled “the roof of the world” but i’ve found no evidence of its existence and also every rich dickhead who ever paid some nepal
... mehr anzeigenEdit: The long shot worked! I was thinking of The Edge of the World, by John Gordon. archive.org/details/edgeofworl…
Extreme #AskFedi long shot, I’m thinking of a Young Adult novel published some time in the 1980s.
It’s a portal fantasy set in what appears to be mid-C20 rural UK. A young boy is telekinetic and learns that using his power causes a dimension slip. He teaches the skill to a girl. Together they slip to a place where they find the wreck of a legendary lost wartime fighter plane that had dimension slipped when the pilot (an ancestor or uncle?) desperately tried to telekinetically control his crippled aircraft. There was some kind of evil overlady who tasks the protagonists with something involving an endless stairway into the sky. I think it was titled “the roof of the world” but i’ve found no evidence of its existence and also every rich dickhead who ever paid some nepalese to carry them up a mountain has used that title for their inevitable ghostwritten autobiography. #bookstodon
