cent Earth was
dwindling ... Mars was far away in another portion of its orbit--the
Moon was behind the Earth. There were just the myriad blazing giant
worlds of the stars--infinitely remote, with vast distances of inky void
between them. And now there was a visible movement to the stars! A sort
of shifting movement....

An hour.... A day.... A week.... Who shall try and describe what Lee
Anthony beheld during that weird outward journey?... For a brief time,
after they swept past the orbit of Mars, the great planets of Jupiter
and Saturn were almost in a line ahead of the plunging, expanding globe.
A monstrous thing now--with electronically charged gravity-plates so
that it plunged onward by its own repellant force--the repellant force
of the great star-field beneath it.

* * * * *

Lee stared at Jupiter, a lead-colored world with its red spot like a
monster's single glaring eye. With the speed of light Jupiter was
advancing, swinging off to one side with a visible flow of movement, and
dropping down into the lower void as the globe went past it. Yet, as it
approached, visually it had not grown larger. Instead, there was only a
steady dwindling. A dwindling of great Saturn, with its gorgeous,
luminous rings came next. These approaching planets, seeming to shrink!
Because, with Lee's expanding viewpoint, everything in the vast scene
was shrinking! Great distances here, in relation to the giant globe,
were dwindling! These millions of miles between Saturn and Jupiter had
shrunk into thousands. And then were shrinking to hundreds.

Abruptly, with a startled shock to his senses, Lee's viewpoint changed.
Always before he had instinctively conceived himself to be his normal
six foot earthly size. The starry Universe was vast beyond his
conception. And in a second now, that abruptly was altered. He conceived
the vehicle as of actuality it was--a globe as large as the ball of
Saturn itself! And simultaneously he envisaged the present reality of
Saturn. Out in the inky blackness it hung--not a giant ringed world
millions of miles away, but only a little ringed ball no bigger than the
spaceship--a ringed ball only eight or ten times as big as Lee himself.
It hung there for an instant beside them--only a mile or so away
perhaps. And as it went past, with both distance and size-change
combining now, it shrank with amazing rapidity! A ball only as big as
this room.... Then no larger than Lee it hun