The Man From the Atom

Overview:

• Title: The Man From the Atom
• Author: G. Peyton Wertenbaker
• Year: 1923
• Type: Short Fiction
• Series: The Man From the Atom
• Number in series: 1

Synopsis:

Professor Martyn invents a box that allows one to increase or decrease their size. Kirby, wearing the device, makes himself increasingly larger, until he is larger than the universe. At his point he cannot easily shrink himself and still find the Earth, so he settles for a planet somewhat like Earth.

Notes:

First published in Science and Invention, August 1923.

Editions/Publications:

• 1926. Amazing Stories, April 1926 (1926, Hugo Gernsback Experimenter Publishing Co., $0.25, 96 pages, Magazine)
• 1966. Amazing Stories, February 1966 (1966, Sol Cohen, $0.50, 164 pages, Magazine)
• 1966. Amazing Stories, April 1966 (1966, Sol Cohen, $0.50, 196 pages, Magazine)
• 1979. Amazing Stories, November 1979 (1979, Omar Gohagen, $1.50, 130 pages, Magazine)

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