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still nothing? :(
No, sorry. Loved that show, but this was a book, aimed at older elementary school kids. I think the name of it had "future" or "futuristic" or something in the title. The spacebus crash story might have been from that or from something else.
Very possibly Future Fright
. Interesting that this should show up—I read (part of) the book, too, but the part that I remember is the guy who got stuck under a building but was immortal and therefore couldn't die.
Yesyesyes!!! That was Future Fright. Are they both in that book or was the second one something else??? Thank you!!!
ok, this was sometime in the 90's. It was not a Goosebumps book, but it was kids' horror stories. It was more sci-fi/future than anything. A collection of stories; one where a girl used her dad's phone to call someone in the past, and she let this past girl know when she (the past girl) would die.
And there was another one where contact lenses had been developed that were like x-ray vision, letting someone see internal organs. But they hadn't been completely developed. The girl (I think she was an intern in this hospital place) was told NOT to put them on, they weren't approved, but she didn't listen. They melted into her eyes and she went crazy and died somehow.
(Edit: I think the last line of that story was "Well, it seems Miss X didn't do her homework." (X being the name I don't remember. The (nurse? supervisor?) was speaking to the doctor about the now dead girl)
I'm not sure if it was the same book, or another story collection, but I remember one where a boy went in a spaceship to "space camp" and when he was on the way home, the spacebus crashed and he was the only survivor. The only other living thing on this planet was an alien that let the boy imagine anything he wanted. So he could imagine he was back on Earth, but he really wasn't (Kind of like the aliens in the "Home" episode of Stargate Atlantis, but he didn't look like them. And this was definitely a book, pre SG-1 and Atlantis)
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