02259cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500310014326400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032449000480036050000310040850801130043952012370055253400450178965300200183483000480185485600430190222527UtSlPG20260610133522.0mcr n260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCummings, Ray,d1887-195710aBeyond the Vanishing Point 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2007  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aPublished in Astounding Stories March 1931.  aRelease date is 2007-09-06  aProduced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net  a"Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummings is a science fiction novel written in the late 1950s. The narrative revolves around the adventures of George Randolph, who embarks on a thrilling journey involving atomic travel to a miniature world within a gold atom, where he must rescue his friends from a sinister figure, Franz Polter. The story blends elements of suspense, action, and speculative science, exploring themes of size and perception.  The opening of the novel introduces George Randolph as he receives a frantic call from his friend Alan Kent, summoning him to Quebec under mysterious circumstances involving the disappearance of Alan’s twin sister, Babs. As Randolph travels to their location, he reflects on their shared past and the dark figure of Polter, who has haunted them since childhood after a mysterious incident involving the Kents’ father. As tensions rise and the urgency to find Babs escalates, readers are thrust into a world where science and the supernatural intertwine, setting the stage for a gripping quest filled with danger and intrigue, as Randolph prepares to confront the formidable Polter and unravel the secrets of atomic size manipulation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aScience fiction 0aPublished in Astounding Stories March 1931.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22527