Cummings Ray
Ray Cummings (Raymond King Cummings) (August 30, 1887 - January 23, 1957 was an author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre"[1]. 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.
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The World Beyond
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THE WORLD BEYONDBy RAY CUMMINGS....Out of nowhere came these grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will.
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The White Invaders
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Out of their unknown fourth dimensional realm materializes a horde of White Invaders with power invincible. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Wandl the Invader
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WANDL THE INVADER by RAY CUMMINGS Copyright, 1932, by Clayton Publications, Inc.A CLASSIC NOVEL OF INTERPLANETARY WARFAREThere were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was withintheir boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce andbegan trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then theydiscovered a tenth planet--a maverick!This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it washeading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to theEarth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raisingturmoil on the two inhabited worlds.But even so none suspected then just how much trouble this new worldwould make. For it was WANDL THE INVADER and it was no barrenplanetoid. It was a manned world, manned by minds and monsters andtraveling into our system with a purpose beyond that of astronomicalaccident!It's a terrific novel from the classic days of great science-fictionadventure--now first published in book form. When RAY CUMMINGS tookleave of this planet early in 1957, the world of modernscience-fiction lost one of its genuine founding fathers. For theimagination of this talented writer supplied a great many of the mostbasic themes upon which the present superstructure of science-fictionis based. Following the lead of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, Cummingssuccessfully bridged the gap between the early dawning ofscience-fiction in the last decades of the Nineteenth Century and thefull flowering of the field in these middle decades of the Twentieth.Born in 1887, Cummings acquired insight into the vast possibilities offuture science by a personal association with Thomas Alva Edison.During the 1920's and 1930's, he thrilled millions of readers with hisvivid tales of space and time. The infinite and the infinitesimal wereall parts of his canvas, and past, present, and future, theinterplanetary and the extra-dimensional, all made their initialimpact on the reading public through his many stories and novels.
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The World Beyond
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4.5/5
THE WORLD BEYONDBy RAY CUMMINGS....Out of nowhere came these grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will.
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The White Invaders
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Wandl the Invader
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WANDL THE INVADER by RAY CUMMINGS Copyright, 1932, by Clayton Publications, Inc.A CLASSIC NOVEL OF INTERPLANETARY WARFAREThere were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was withintheir boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce andbegan trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then theydiscovered a tenth planet--a maverick!This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it washeading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to theEarth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raisingturmoil on the two inhabited worlds.But even so none suspected then just how much trouble this new worldwould make. For it was WANDL THE INVADER and it was no barrenplanetoid. It was a manned world, manned by minds and monsters andtraveling into our system with a purpose beyond that of astronomicalaccident!It's a terrific novel from the classic days of great science-fictionadventure--now first published in book form. When RAY CUMMINGS tookleave of this planet early in 1957, the world of modernscience-fiction lost one of its genuine founding fathers. For theimagination of this talented writer supplied a great many of the mostbasic themes upon which the present superstructure of science-fictionis based. Following the lead of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, Cummingssuccessfully bridged the gap between the early dawning ofscience-fiction in the last decades of the Nineteenth Century and thefull flowering of the field in these middle decades of the Twentieth.Born in 1887, Cummings acquired insight into the vast possibilities offuture science by a personal association with Thomas Alva Edison.During the 1920's and 1930's, he thrilled millions of readers with hisvivid tales of space and time. The infinite and the infinitesimal wereall parts of his canvas, and past, present, and future, theinterplanetary and the extra-dimensional, all made their initialimpact on the reading public through his many stories and novels.
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Tarrano the Conqueror
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A space opera of 1925 by an American engineer and writer, author of science fiction, considered to be one of the “founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre”, Ray Cummings. The action takes place in a time beyond our present-day era, in 2430 A.D. A story of adventure and romance, it is also a peculiar political thriller, describing a magnetic personality of a villain, considered by some to be modeled on Napoleon or Hitler.
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The Fire People
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Raymond King Cummings (1887-1957), was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". 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. Amongst his other works are: The Shadow Girl (1921), The Fire People (1922), The Man Who Mastered Time (1924), The Man on the Meteor (1924), Tarrano the Conqueror (1925), Beyond the Stars (1928), The Princess of the Atom (1929), The Sea Girl (1930), Brigands of the Moon (1930), Beyond the Vanishing Point (1931), Wandl the Invader (1932) and Into the Fourth Dimension (as editor) (1941).
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Beyond the Vanishing Point
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Ace Double Novel. Beyond the Vanishing Point: "Out of infinite smallness grew a gigantic peril." The Secret of Zi: "Earth must endure the star-aliens because of The Secret of Zi."
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