
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
In a quiet Kansas house at midnight, a tired husband and father watches his ceiling glow with spiraling yellow lights. The faint, whispering entities call themselves Ato and Wolden, claiming to travel across dimensions faster than light and to be reaching him now. Their cryptic messages turn an ordinary rubber ball into a shifting, color‑changing object, hinting at the manipulation of time and space. The narrator, half‑dreaming, is drawn deeper into an encounter that blurs the line between the familiar night sky and an alien reality.
Soon a cold, leaden cube materializes on his desk, its lid sealed by a coiled‑snake motif and moonstone eyes that seem to mock his fear. When he finally pries the lid open, a manuscript written in the unmistakable hand of his missing friend, Doctor Jack Odin, lies inside, promising clues about the strange visitors and the hidden world they inhabit. The discovery sets the stage for a reluctant hero to confront unknown forces while questioning the limits of reality itself.
Language
en
Duration
~4 hours (233K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Andrew Wainwright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2008-05-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1913–1975
Best known for brisk, idea-driven science fiction, this Oklahoma-born writer published stories from the late 1930s and went on to write several space adventure novels. His work has remained visible through reprints and public-domain editions, especially for readers who enjoy classic mid-century pulp SF.
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