Jack Williamson 42 min read

'Nothing ever happens to me!' grumbles ad-man Larry Manahan, aching for a slice of real life, and gets it, in the form of a shrunken artificial world and a woman in danger upon it.

Jack Williamson's 1932 story is a rousing hard-SF adventure of the microcosm. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful early Williamson yarn where a bored young man is shrunk to enter a laboratory-made pygmy planet, and finds all the adventure and peril he ever wished for.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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