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    The Man From the Atom
    The Man From the Atom
    The Man From the Atom
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    The Man From the Atom

    By Green Peyton Wertenbaker

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    This was one of the 6 science fiction stories published in the first issue (April 1926) of the first magazine devoted to science fiction, Amazing Stories, edited and published by Hugo Gernsback, now considered to be the father of the science fiction genre.He described this story in an inset panel:

    "In 'Alice in the Looking Glass', the beautiful play of fancy which gave immortal fame to a logician and mathematician, we read of the mysterious change in size of the heroine, the charming little Alice. It tells how she grew large and small according to what she ate. But here we have increase in size pushed to its utmost limit. Here we have treated the growth of a man to cosmic dimensions. And we are told of his strange sensation and are led up to a sudden startling and impressive conclusion, and are taken through the picture of his emotions and despair."

    The reader with even the most basic knowledge of science will find this story flawed, incredible, perhaps ludicrous.But, after all, it's fiction, more fantasy than science.Suspend your disbelief and let the story carry you where it will, across space and time, to love.

    The magazine copyright and the individual copyright of the author were not renewed.Therefore this work is in the public domain in the United States.It may also be in the public domain in other countries based on the life of the author, who in this instance died in 1968.Check your country's copyright length at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooklassic
    Release dateJun 29, 2015
    ISBN9789635267033
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      The Man From the Atom - Green Peyton Wertenbaker

      978-963-526-703-3

      Preface

      This was one of the 6 science fiction stories published in the first issue (April 1926) of the first magazine devoted to science fiction, Amazing Stories, edited and published by Hugo Gernsback, now considered to be the father of the science fiction genre.  He described this story in an inset panel:

      In 'Alice in the Looking Glass', the beautiful play of fancy which gave immortal fame to a logician and mathematician, we read of the mysterious change in size of the heroine, the charming little Alice. It tells how she grew large and small according to what she ate. But here we have increase in size pushed to its utmost limit. Here we have treated the growth of a man to cosmic dimensions. And we are told of his strange sensation and are led up to a sudden startling and impressive conclusion, and are taken through the picture of his emotions and despair.

      The reader with even the most basic knowledge of science will find this story flawed, incredible, perhaps ludicrous.  But, after all, it's fiction, more fantasy than science.  Suspend your disbelief and let the story carry you where it will, across space and time, to love.

      Part 1

      Chapter 1

      IAM a lost soul, and I  am homesick. Yes,  homesick. Yet how  vain is homesickness  when one is without a home! I can but be sick for a home that has gone. For my home departed millions of years ago, and there is now not even a trace of its former existence. Millions of years ago, I say, in all truth and earnestness. But I must tell the tale—though there is no man left to understand it.

      I well remember that morning when my friend, Professor Martyn, called me to him on a matter of the greatest importance. I may explain that the Professor was one of those mysterious outcasts, geniuses whom Science would not recognize because they scorned the pettiness of the men who represented Science. Martyn was first of all a scientist, but almost as equally he was a man of intense imagination, and where the ordinary man crept along from detail to detail and required a complete model before being able to visualize the results of his work, Professor Martyn first grasped the great results of his contemplated work, the vast, far-reaching effects, and then built with the end in view.

      The Professor had few friends. Ordinary men avoided him because they were unable to understand the greatness of his vision. Where he plainly saw pictures of worlds and universes, they vainly groped among pictures of his words on printed pages. That was their impression of a word. A group of letters. His was of the picture it presented in his mind. I, however, though I had not the slightest claim to scientific knowledge, was romantic to a high degree, and always willing to carry out his strange experiments for the sake of the adventure and the strangeness of it all. And so the advantages were equal. I had a mysterious personage ready to furnish me with the unusual. He had a willing subject to try out his inventions, for he reasoned quite naturally that should he himself perform the experiments, the world would be in danger of losing a mentality it might eventually have need of.

      And so it was that I hurried to him without the slightest hesitation upon that, to me, momentous day of days in my life. I little realized the great change that soon would come over my existence, yet I knew that I was in for an adventure, certainly startling, possibly fatal. I had no delusions concerning my luck.

      I found Professor Martyn in his laboratory bending, with

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