Beyond the Vanishing Point

George Randolph has followed a desperate signal into the impossible: a complete world, infinitely small, existing within the heart of a single golden atom. Orena is a universe of gleaming mountains and precious-metal rivers, where science has discovered how to shrink matter to atomic scales. But Randolph hasn't come for wonder. His friends are trapped there, captives of a madman who reduced them to Orena-size, and only Randolph carries the growth capsules that can return them to human scale. The catch: the longer they remain tiny, the closer they drift toward the Vanishing Point, a threshold beyond which no matter returns. What follows is a pulse-pounding race through a world where a pebble becomes a mountain and a moment becomes an eternity. Ray Cummings, writing at the height of pulp SF's golden age, constructs a universe of genuine imagination and deploys it for pure adventure storytelling. The science may be vintage 1920s, but the tension never dates. For readers who want their speculative fiction with forward momentum and high stakes.