Beyond the Vanishing Point

Ray Cummings

• Publisher: Perlego
• Year: 2007
• eBook ISBN: 9700000022527
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is Bruce and George Wallis' "The Mother World." They held the fate of Earth in their hands! Even his closest family and friends thought of Austin Locke as an eccentric old dreamer--a man who fantasized about the possibilities of interstellar travel. But Locke for years had been secretly perfecting a fantastic new spacecraft, capable of conquering the speed of light and beyond. And when Austin Locke showed this fantastic new invention to his friends, little idea did he have that the bitterness of an old acquaintance would send him and his companions hurtling across the void of space at a speed never even dreamed of by Einstein. But this incredible journey only marked the beginning of the story--the story of a strange new world filled with a race of such fantastically perfect people, that they felt duty-bound to rid the known universe of any world that fell too far below their own standards of perfection. The solution was simple--complete disintegration of the planet and its entire populace. Unfortunately, Earth fell far below those standards! The second novel, "Beyond the Vanishing Point," is by well-known science fiction writer Ray Cummings. It was a Pandora's Box of atomic travel. When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of miniature perfection--an infinitely tiny universe within a golden atom! But for Randolph it was also a world aglow with danger. Somewhere in its tiny vastness were the friends he had to rescue. Captives of a madman, they had been reduced to native Orena size; to return to Earth they needed the growth capsules Randolph was bringing them. It was up to Randolph to find them--and quickly--for the longer they stayed tiny, the closer they came to passing BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT!