Ray Cummings 3 hr 13 min read

Racing through space in a vehicle larger than the universe, a man watches stars stream through the cabin, for they are only atoms, and he is vast beyond scale.

Ray Cummings's 1928 novel (serialized in Argosy) spins a mind-bending romance of relative size, in which our whole cosmos is a single atom in a greater one. Dizzying, imaginative macro-scale SF from a master of the size-and-scale story. Read it for vertiginous golden-age wonder about the infinite ladder of large and small.

In its time

Published in 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 13 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Jack Gaughan