Project Gutenberg 2023-12-03 Public domain in the USA. 115 Egan, Jack 1945 Egan, John William Finlay, Virgil 1914 1971 Finlay World Edge $aNew York, NY :$bZiff-Davis Publishing Company, $c1962. 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 Reading ease score: 85.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Psychological fiction Space travelers -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 45449 2025-07-28T13:53:37.528998 text/html 20902 2023-12-03T18:57:42 text/html 397787 2025-07-28T13:53:41.175050 application/epub+zip 396574 2025-07-28T13:53:39.110006 application/epub+zip 233846 2025-07-28T13:53:38.145976 application/epub+zip 1191488 2025-07-28T13:53:42.514955 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1184186 2025-07-28T13:53:40.454011 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 37816 2025-07-28T13:53:37.376977 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18031 2023-12-03T18:57:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16670 2025-07-28T13:53:42.683945 application/rdf+xml 35679 2025-07-28T13:53:38.588010 image/jpeg 5302 2025-07-28T13:53:38.363992 image/jpeg 2293532 2025-07-28T13:53:37.558992 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia