Beyond the Vanishing Point

Summoned to Quebec by friends in desperate trouble, young assistant chemist George Randolph finds himself drawn back into a mystery that began years earlier in the secluded laboratory of Dr. Kent. There, the brilliant but repulsive Franz Polter vanished after a violent clash, and Dr. Kent himself disappeared soon after, leaving only a cryptic note about a tiny fragment of golden quartz and a scientific discovery too dangerous to name. Now Polter has returned under another identity, grown rich through a strange gold mine, and seems unnaturally aged, while Babs Kent has vanished and Alan Kent is certain the old terror has begun again. George and Alan fly into a blizzard toward Polter's mountain fortress, where they discover a fortified compound built around a hidden laboratory and a glass-domed chamber. There, an electro-microscope, a radioactive drug, and the gold quartz reveal a nightmare beyond crime: human beings can be shrunk to microscopic size. Dragged into this altered world, George, Alan, and the tiny Glora cross a vast miniature landscape of ravines, tunnels, and luminous terrain, where time runs differently and danger comes from giants, collapsing passages, and Polter's ruthless pursuit. Their journey leads to the hidden city of Orena, a tiny civilization enslaved by Polter, where Babs is held captive and the struggle for rescue becomes a battle across impossible worlds. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.