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Overview: Ray Cummings (Raymond King Cummings) was an author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". He was born August 30, 1887 in New York and died January 23, 1957 in Mount Vernon.
Cummings worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919. His most highly regarded work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Fire People (1922)
It was a fiery invasion from another planet! No one could have suspected that Earth was in mortal danger. It started with a small meteor streaking across the sky before smashing into the Earth’s surface. But the event was so much more than a simple collision between Earth and a wandering piece of space rubble. A strange glow began to radiate from the meteor, a glow unlike anything known to Earthly science; and with these emanations came death-horrifying, incendiary death-because anything coming into contact with that light was immediately destroyed. And soon the fate of Earth fell into the hands of an inquisitive newspaper reporter and a brilliant professor of science as they strived to save mankind from its first interplanetary threat-an attack on Earth from her distant neighbor in the sky – Mercury.
The Shadow Girl (1922)
A mysterious tower appears in the middle of a city, bearing a troubled girl from the future in search of help from today. One of Cummings’ best works, THE SHADOW GIRL remains thoroughly readable and enjoyable even though it was first published more than eighty years ago. "He is a Verne returned and a Wells going forward," remarked "Bob" Davis, dean of American magazine editors. "He is the American H.G. Wells," say other critics. Cummings has an unusual flair for things scientific as evidenced by the fact that while at Princeton University he accomplished the remarkable feat of absorbing three years of physics in that many months. His five years’ association with Thomas Edison as the latter’s personal assistant also added to Cummings’s scientific knowledge. His bizarre early life, living on orange plantations in Puerto Rico, striking oil in Wyoming, gold seeking in British Columbia, timber cruising in the North, before he was twenty, also left its imprint.
The Girl in the Golden Atom (1923)
A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother’s wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world. Having worked for Thomas Alva Edison, Ray Cummings was inspired by science’s possibilities and began to write science fiction. The Girl in the Golden Atom was enormously successful at its publication in 1923, and Cummings went on to write an equally successful sequel, The People of the Golden Atom.
The Man who Mastered Time (1924)
It took what seemed but half a day’s traveling to traverse the 28,000 years that separated Loto Rogers from the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. He had expected to find mighty cities and a flowering civilization in that future world, but instead he found only ice and snow—and Azeela.
The Exile of Time (1931)
When a girl who said she had been kidnapped from the year 1777 appeared in modern New York, she was either deluded or the victim of an incredible time-spanning plot. And when it turned out the strange man with a mechanical servant who had kidnapped her had been seen in other centuries, it became clear that a super-scientific plot was afoot that must reach far into the unknown cities of the future. THE EXILE OF TIME is a novel of adventure and wonder such as only the hand of a classic master of science-fiction could have written.
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