Ray Cummings ~6 hr read

A man builds a device that shrinks him small enough to enter a golden atom, and there, in a whole world within a ring, he finds the beautiful Lylda and an adventure across the ultimate microcosm.

Ray Cummings's 1922 novel is a foundational classic of early science fiction. Imaginative, romantic, hugely influential. Read it for the landmark tale that launched the 'worlds within atoms' tradition, a modern Gulliver's voyage into the infinitely small, and the love and peril he finds there.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).