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100 1 _aCummings, Ray,
_d1887-1957
245 1 4 _aThe giant world
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Weird Tales January, February, March 1928.
500 _aSequel to: Explorers into infinity, #77505.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-20
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1928
653 _aScience fiction
700 1 _aRankin, Hugh,
_d1878-1956
700 1 _aSenf, C. C.
_q(Curtis Charles),
_d1873-1949
830 0 _aProduced from Weird Tales January, February, March 1928.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77512
999 _c118232
_d118232