Ray Cummings 42 min read

Young George Carter loves the little moonlit rock garden his dead mother planted, a dreamer despite his scientist's calling, where a most extraordinary visitor is about to appear.

Ray Cummings's 1940 story is an imaginative hard-SF and adventure tale of the atomic microcosm. Vivid, romantic golden-age pulp. Read it for classic Cummings and his beloved theme of worlds within atoms, a young man's dreamy garden and the girl who comes to him out of infinite smallness.

In its time

Published in 1940, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

42 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Leo Morey