The Princess of the Atom

In 1929, Ray Cummings imagined a world within a world: a civilization living inside the heart of a meteor, invisible to human eyes until a girl named Dianne walks out of nothing and into the Ferrule family. She is their adopted sister, their daughter, until she isn't. When she vanishes from Bird's Nest Island, the family mourns what they cannot understand. Then the giants come. Towering figures rise from the Atlantic, each one taller than the Empire State Building, marching toward American shores with destruction in their plans. At the center of this impossible crisis stands an Atomic Napoleon, a ruler from Dianne's microscopic realm whose lust for power extends far beyond his tiny world. Frank Ferrule must battle this tyrant to save both Dianne and the Earth itself, journeying through realms of unimaginable smallness where the laws of physics bend and twist. The Princess of the Atom is pulp science fiction at its most gloriously unchecked: part adventure, part romance, part speculative fever dream. It asks what lies beneath the visible world and answers with giants, atomic civilizations, and a hero willing to shrink to save everything he loves.