02969cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500170014326400510016030000470021133600260025833700260028433800360031049000810034650000310042750801080045852017160056653400750228265300200235765300220237765300320239970000330243183000810246485600430254599900190258876268UtSlPG20260610134750.0mcr n260607r20251929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCummings, Ray,d1887-195714aThe sea girl 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6, 1929.  aRelease date is 2025-06-11  aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net  aThe Sea Girl by Ray Cummings is a science fiction novel written in the early 20th century. Set in a near-future 1990 of sub-sea freighters and airliners, it pits humanity against a baffling undersea menace as oceans mysteriously recede and ships vanish without a trace. The story centers on navigator Geoffry Grant, the driven oceanographer Dr. Plantet, his practical daughter Polly, and the dreamer Arturo, who glimpses a girl inside a strange metallic globe beneath the waves. Their intertwined paths lead to a daring deep-sea expedition and an uncanny encounter with a “sea girl” on a remote Micronesian atoll.  The opening of the novel follows escalating Pacific disasters, a glimpse of a luminous undersea globe with a young woman’s face, and worldwide anomalies—abnormal tides, quakes, and volcanoes venting steam—culminating in Dr. Plantet’s stark conclusion that Earth’s honeycombed crust is draining the oceans and that a hidden human-like civilization may be rising to challenge the surface. As governments mobilize and censorship lifts, he builds the Dolphin, a revolutionary craft rated to two thousand fathoms, and sets out with Grant and Polly to scout the Pacific deeps. On the eve of departure, Arturo vanishes, leaving a note and secretly flying to the reported “mermaid” atoll, where he meets a shy, intelligent sea girl and begins to win her trust. Meanwhile, the Dolphin searches westward across the basin, finds no enemy sign, then receives Arturo’s urgent midnight call to rendezvous at the island. The section closes with Arturo waiting by a cave on the moonlit shore after the girl slips back into the water’s darkness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929  aScience fiction  aAdventure stories  aClimatic changes -- Fiction1 aGraef, Robert A.,d1879-1951 0aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6, 1929.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76268  c116993d116993