The Girl in the Golden Atom

Ray Cummings

 
A classic work of science fiction, this 1923 Ray Cummings novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom.

The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's gold wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman.

Ray Cummings (1887 - 1957) is considered one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre." Cummings worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919. Inspired by science's possibilities, Cummings began to write science fiction.

The Girl in the Golden Atom is Cummings' best-known work.


     

Chapter 1 — A Universe in an Atom

Chapter 2 — Into the Ring

Chapter 3 — After Forty-Eight Hours

Chapter 4 — Lylda

Chapter 5 — The World in the Ring

Chapter 6 — Strategy and Kisses

Chapter 7 — A Modern Gulliver

Chapter 8 — I Must Go Back

Chapter 9 — After Five Years

Chapter 10 — Testing the Drugs

Chapter 11 — The Escape of the Drug

Chapter 12 — The Start

Chapter 13 — The Perilous Ways

Chapter 14 — Strange Experiences

Chapter 15 — The Valley of the Sacrifice

Chapter 16 — The Pit of Darkness

Chapter 17 — The Welcome of the Master

Chapter 18 — The Chemist and His Son

Chapter 19 — The City of Arite

Chapter 20 — The World of the Ring

Chapter 21 — A Life Worth Living

Chapter 22 — The Trial

Chapter 23 — Lylda's Plan

Chapter 24 — Lylda's Acts

Chapter 25 — The Escape of Targo

Chapter 26 — The Abduction

Chapter 27 — Aura

Chapter 28 — The Attack on the Palace

Chapter 29 — On the Lake

Chapter 30 — Word Music

Chapter 31 — The Palace of Orlog

Chapter 32 — An Ant-Hill Outraged

Chapter 33 — The Rescue of Loto

Chapter 34 — The Decision

Chapter 35 — Good-by to Arite

Chapter 36 — The Fight in the Tunnels

Chapter 37 — A Combat of Titans

Chapter 38 — Lost in Size

Chapter 39 — A Modern Dinosaur

Chapter 40 — The Adventurers' Return

Chapter 41 — The First Christmas








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