Costigan's Needle

by Jerry Sohl

A field generator that encloses a portal to an unknown dimension is too small for anyone to look through, but when hands are extended through the opening, they disappear - along with as much of the arm of the tester as can fit. A much larger generator is constructed, a towering column with a door-shaped opening at the base resembling the eye of a needle. But before testing can occur, an imbalance in the power source explodes the field out of the eye. Most of the populace of a city block disappears into the portal. The journey back reminds one of Verne's "Mysterious Island" in that the...

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