This book opens with a scientist called Charlie talking about Chris, a young scientist who has disappeared. He then shows us a manuscript of a story detailing Chris’s life that explains what has happened to him. It’s a chilling tale of a handicapped artist called Eckmann (he has dwarfism) who is so in love with Poppea a dancer (who is going out with Chris’s dad) that he creates a machine that uses the speed of dark to shrink P & Robert into tiny figures in a glass snow dome. The worst thing then is he is so overcome by guilt at what he’s done, and a desire to be loved that he “adopts” Chris, sends him to the finest schools, etc while all the while keeping R & P & Chris’s half sister alive in this tiny world. Chilling horror.p.118 “The Tiny Dancer”