Project Gutenberg 2023-12-03 Public domain in the USA. 67 Egan, Jack 1945 Egan, John William Finlay, Virgil 1914 1971 Finlay World Edge $aNew York, NY :$bZiff-Davis Publishing Company, $c1962. Reading ease score: 85.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "World Edge" by Jack Egan is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The book explores themes of reality, memory, and identity as it follows the protagonist, Harvey Crane, who finds himself in a surreal landscape filled with fantastical elements, including otherworldly creatures and an enigmatic girl named Dana. The story delves into Harvey's struggle to understand his existence and the nature of the world around him. In "World Edge," Harvey Crane awakens in a strange and colorful world with little recollection of his past, accompanied by a girl named Dana and a shape-shifting creature. As he navigates this peculiar reality, he begins to uncover the truth about his situation: he is trapped in a dreamlike state following an accident in his spaceship that sent him into an alternate dimension. Dana reveals herself to be a projection of his subconscious, representing his wife on Earth, and urges him to wake up and confront reality. The narrative culminates in a tense confrontation between Harvey's desire to remain in this fantasy world and the pressing need to return to the real world, ultimately lending itself to a profound reflection on the nature of existence and imagination. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20231118135630egan 1962 US en Science fiction Short stories Psychological fiction Space travelers -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 45320 2024-09-29T15:30:22.286713 text/html 20902 2023-12-03T18:57:42 text/html 397724 2024-09-29T15:30:27.025755 application/epub+zip 396584 2024-09-29T15:30:24.478726 application/epub+zip 233860 2024-09-29T15:30:23.074953 application/epub+zip 1191500 2024-09-29T15:30:28.558704 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1184186 2024-09-29T15:30:26.040697 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 37810 2024-09-29T15:30:21.965729 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18031 2023-12-03T18:57:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15548 2024-09-29T15:30:28.995734 application/rdf+xml 35679 2024-09-29T15:30:23.813763 image/jpeg 5302 2024-09-29T15:30:23.451719 image/jpeg 2293498 2024-09-29T15:30:22.318768 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia