
Lee Anthony is on the cusp of his twenty‑first birthday, a moment that should be marked by celebration but is instead shadowed by the quiet bedside of Anna Green, the kind woman who raised him after his parents’ death. As Anna’s health wanes, she whispers fragmented memories of Lee’s grandfather—a brilliant, secretive scientist whose unfinished invention promised something extraordinary. The young man feels a sudden surge of curiosity and hope, sensing that his family’s hidden legacy might finally surface.
That night, before the mystery can be fully explained, a group of grim, black‑clad strangers bursts in, seizing Lee and two others and whisking them away to an alien landscape where the rules of reality bend—people can grow to colossal size at will, and the very nature of humanity is called into question. Stranded in this uncanny world, Lee must grapple with the strange powers around him while trying to uncover the purpose behind his abduction and the promise his grandfather left behind.
Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (71K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, adhere and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2009-06-07
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

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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