
A brilliant but absent‑minded physicist at White Sands spends his evenings tinkering with a secret anti‑gravity project, even on his wedding night. When his wife Helene slips out in a hurry, he dives deeper into the basement lab, hoping a tiny circuit change will unlock a breakthrough. A sudden surge throws him off the floor, and the living room transforms into an odd training ground where he begins to float—and to wonder whether his obsession is worth the cost.
Caught in a bewildering barrel‑roll, he watches the chandelier become a miniature sun, and around it spins Gladys, the striking blonde who seems to glide in a perfect, gentle orbit. Their chemistry crackles amid the strange physics, mixing witty banter with the tension of a high‑stakes experiment. Listeners are invited into a retro‑futuristic tale where scientific curiosity, romance, and a hint of danger all hover just out of reach.
Language
en
Duration
~22 minutes (21K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Royal Publications, Inc,1957.
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2022-06-22
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
A pulp-era science fiction writer, he published imaginative magazine stories from the late 1930s through the 1950s and later wrote the novel Rock the Big Rock. His work ranges from spacefaring speculation to sly, idea-driven tales that still feel lively today.
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