The Hidden Universe

"Where are we?" asked Cathcart. "You are no longer in the world. You are not even on another planet of the solar system. You are not even in the same universe as that in which you were this monring. Even time here has no rlation to the time of the world from which you have come. . ." Thus speaks the man who guides the destinies of the colonists who have just arrived in the new world of Malcolm Frain, industrialist. These people have been lured into Frain's organization by utopian promises. But their "utopia" is filled with military police, their freedom is restricted and the very air they breathe is controlled by Boss Frain. Impelled by the state of unrest Cathcart persuades the great scientist Dr. Emanuel Freundlich to assist him in hunting th ekey to Frain's universe. They measure the acceleration of gravity and find it 32.16 feet per second, per second. This being exactly earth value, it would indicate they are on earth, in some cavern far below the surface. But their magnetic compass shows no north, and the plane of the Foucault pendulum shifts only imperceptibly instead of making one complete rotation every twenty-four hours as it would if they were still on earth. Working against Frain's security police, Cathcart's investigations take him into dangerous realms. With increasing suspense the phenomena of the Hidden Universe is brought to reality as you learn the answer to this scientific puzzle. Also included, a novelet, "We the Mist."