{"product_id":"9781612270142","title":"Ever Smaller","description":"In Albert Bleunard's Ever Smaller (1893), the first modern novel on the theme of the \"Shrinking Man,\" a group of scientists are shrunken down, first to insect-size, to explore an ordinary garden, which becomes as perilous to them as an alien world; then, to microbe-size inside a drop of water and, finally, into a rose bush. The book also includes The Reluctant Spiritualist, an 1889 novella about a mysterious and seemingly blank canvas which when photographed reveal the face of a man. \"Ever Smaller is a significant landmark in the history of scientific romance. Not only does it go where no writer had gone before, in extending its thought-experiments beyond those of Jean-Henri Fabre and S. Henry Berthoud, it does so boldly.\" Brian Stableford.","brand":"Black Coat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041885438192,"sku":"9781612270142","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612270142_p0.jpg?v=1763843322","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612270142","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}