Ray Cummings 4 hr 19 min read

When the mysterious beauty Dianne returns from oblivion, giants appear off the New England coast, for her love brought terror to two worlds, and adventure to the young men who loved her.

Ray Cummings's 1929 novel is a rousing hard-SF adventure of the atomic microcosm. Vivid, romantic golden-age pulp. Read it for classic Cummings sub-atomic wonder in the vein of his famous 'Girl in the Golden Atom', a beauty from a world within the atom, giants, and cosmic peril, in the breathless, imaginative style of a founding pulp master.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 19 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).