02799cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500200014326400510016330000470021433600260026133700260028733800360031349000610034950000480041050000310045850801080048952015360059753400860213365300200221970000290223970000460226883000610231485600430237599900190241877512UtSlPG20260610134809.0mcr n260607r20251928utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCummings, Ray,d1887-195714aThe giant world 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Weird Tales January, February, March 1928.  aSequel to: Explorers into infinity, #77505.  aRelease date is 2025-12-20  aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net  a"The giant world" by Ray Cummings is a science fiction novel written in the early 20th century. It follows clerk-turned-explorer Frank Elgon and the twins Martt and Frannie as they journey in a size- and time-shifting craft to a concave “Inner Surface” to find Brett, encountering the singer Leela, her family, and an indolent, art-loving society shadowed by marauding giants from a vaster outer realm. The tale blends romance, awe at strange scales, and rising menace as human-sized lives collide with titanic powers.

The opening of the story finds Frank Elgon summoned by Dr. Gryce to help find Brett, only to arrive as the old man dies; honoring his last wish, Frank, Martt, and Frannie enlarge a remaining model craft and descend to the Inner Surface. In the city of Crescent they reunite with Brett—now living with Leela and set to marry—while learning of Romantica’s peaceful, music-rich life and the uneasy rumors of giants near Reaf. During a lantern-lit island festival, a towering figure appears offshore, panic erupts, and giant agents drug Leela and Frannie, shrinking them beyond immediate rescue as Brett and Frank look on in horror. Martt and Leela’s impetuous sister Zee then pursue the captors by fast sail through fog to Reaf, hoping to steal the size-changing drugs from a sleeping giant, while Frannie’s viewpoint traces a breathless, size-shifting ride on horned mounts and a plunge into the subterranean rivers that lead toward the giants’ world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1928  aScience fiction1 aRankin, Hugh,d1878-19561 aSenf, C. C.q(Curtis Charles),d1873-1949 0aProduced from Weird Tales January, February, March 1928.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77512  c118232d118232