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    The Ray Cummings MEGAPACK®: 25 Golden Age Science Fiction and Mystery Tales
    The Ray Cummings MEGAPACK®: 25 Golden Age Science Fiction and Mystery Tales
    The Ray Cummings MEGAPACK®: 25 Golden Age Science Fiction and Mystery Tales
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    The Ray Cummings MEGAPACK®: 25 Golden Age Science Fiction and Mystery Tales

    By Ray Cummings

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    To anyone interested in the roots of modern science fiction, the name of Ray Cummings should be well known. He wrote science fiction and fantasy before the name "science fiction" had been coined, publishing fantastic yarns in Argosy, Munsey's Magazine, and other mainstream pulp magazines. Of course, as soon as the science fiction pulps debuted, he moved to them, where his work received a hearty welcome from fans. Cummings publishing more than 750 novels and short stories over his long career, producing work in many genres, including the mystery field (see "Atom Boy" in this Megapack for one prime example). We are pleased to showcase 25 of his tales, ranging from science fiction to fantasy to mystery...more than 1,500 pages of great reading!


    Included are:


    THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM (1919-1920)

    THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM, PART 2

    THE SILVER VEIL (1921)

    THE FIRE PEOPLE (1922)

    TWO PROPOSALS (1923)

    JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS (1930)

    THE WHITE INVADERS (1931)

    REQUIEM FOR A SMALL PLANET (1958)

    BRIGANDS OF THE MOON (1931)

    WANDL THE INVADER (1932)

    TARRANO THE CONQUEROR (1930)

    PHANTOMS OF REALITY (1930)

    DR. FEATHER IN "A SHOT IN THE DARK" (1936)

    DR. FEATHER IN "MURDER IN THE FOG" (1937)

    DR. FEATHER IN "THE DEAD MAN LAUGHS" (1938)

    DR. FEATHER IN "CLUE IN CRIMSON" (1943)

    THE WORLD BEYOND (1938)

    GADGET GIRL (1944)

    PRECIPICE (1945)

    PHOTOGRAPH OF DEATH (1945)

    STAMP OF DOOM (1946)

    THE SCALPEL OF DOOM (1947)

    ATOM BOY (1947)

    THE LIFTED VEIL (1947)

    BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT (1958)

    THE GIRL FROM INFINITE SMALLNESS (1940)

    PLANET STORIES' FEATURE FLASH: MEET RAY CUMMINGS


    And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in the series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns -- and much, much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateAug 26, 2013
    ISBN9781434443403
    The Ray Cummings MEGAPACK®: 25 Golden Age Science Fiction and Mystery Tales
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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 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.

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