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Ray Cummings
Ray Cummings (born Raymond King Cummings) (August 30, 1887 – January 23, 1957) was an American author of science fiction literature and comic books. Cummings is identified as one o...view moreRay Cummings (born Raymond King Cummings) (August 30, 1887 – January 23, 1957) was an American author of science fiction literature and comic books. Cummings is identified as one of the "founding fathers" of the science fiction genre. His most highly regarded fictional work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom published in 1922, which was a consolidation of a short story by the same name published in 1919 (where Cummings combined the idea of Fitz James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells's The Time Machine) and a sequel, The People of the Golden Atom, published in 1920. Before taking book form, several of Cummings's stories appeared serialized in pulp magazines. The first eight chapters of his The Girl in the Golden Atom appeared in All-Story Magazine on March 15, 1919. Ray Cummings wrote in "The Girl in the Golden Atom": "Time . . . is what keeps everything from happening at once", a sentence repeated by scientists such as C. J. Overbeck, and John Archibald Wheeler, and often misattributed to the likes of Einstein or Feynman. Cummings repeated this sentence in several of his novellas. Sources focus on his earlier work, The Time Professor, published in 1921, as its earliest documented usage.view less
Books by Ray Cummings
The Pulp Fiction Megapack: 25 Classic Pulp Stories Beyond the Vanishing Point Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Phantom of the Seven Stars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWandl the Invader Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Second Mystery Megapack: 25 Modern & Classic Mystery Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJuggernaut of Space Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Girl in the Golden Atom Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Flame Breathers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Science Fiction Bundle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ray Cummings MEGAPACK® Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Audiobooks by Ray Cummings
Astounding Stories 15, March 1931 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Man Who Killed The World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBrigands of the Moon Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Astounding Stories 01, January 1930 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The World Beyond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAstounding Stories 17, May 1931 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRay Cummings: The Flame Breathers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAstounding Stories 03, March 1930 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTarrano the Conqueror Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings