Beyond the Vanishing Point

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Beyond the Vanishing Point

by Ray Cummings

EN·~2 hours

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When chemist George Randolph is called to a frantic friend in Quebec, he discovers a secret experiment that opens a portal into a single gold atom. Inside, he finds Orena—a glittering landscape of hills, lakes and valleys, all scaled down to a microscopic realm of pure metal. The world is breathtakingly beautiful, yet its minuscule size makes it a fragile, ticking environment where even the slightest misstep can be fatal.

George’s urgent mission is to locate his kidnapped friends, Alan and Babs, who have been shrunk to Orena’s native size by a deranged scientist. Armed with growth capsules that could restore them to normal stature, he must navigate the glittering terrain before the captives slip beyond the Vanishing Point—a mysterious boundary where the atom’s structure collapses. Along the way, he confronts strange native creatures, dazzling hazards, and the looming threat of the madman’s designs, turning his scientific curiosity into a race against time.

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Language

en

Duration

~2 hours (154K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2007-09-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Ray Cummings

Ray Cummings

1887–1957

A prolific early science-fiction writer, he helped shape the pulp era with fast-moving adventures and imaginative ideas about time, space, and strange new worlds. He is especially remembered for stories like The Girl in the Golden Atom, which brought big cosmic wonder to magazine readers.

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