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Beyond the Stars [MultiFormat]
by Ray Cummings
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Classic Space Opera! Racing through the vast depths of space in a vehicle larger than the universe itself--a fantastic concept, and one that only the mind of a master pioneering science fiction talent could conceive and then translate into a classic tale of exciting trans-cosmic adventure! (Published: 1963)
Words: 45415 - Reading Time: 129-181 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Beyond the Vanishing Point [MultiFormat]
by Ray Cummings
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When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of miniature perfection--an infinitely tiny universe within a golden atom! But for Randolph it was also a world aglow with danger. Somewhere in its tiny vastness were the friends he had to rescue. Captives of a madman, they had been reduced to native Ore... more info>> (Published: 1931)
Words: 27919 - Reading Time: 79-111 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Brigands of the Moon [MultiFormat]
by Ray Cummings
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Gregg Haljan was aware that there was a certain danger in having the giant spaceship Planetara stop off at the moon to pick up Grantline's special cargo of moon ore. For that rare metal--invaluable in keeping Earth's technology running--was the target of many greedy eyes. But nevertheless he hadn't figured on the special twist the clever Martian brigands would use. So when he found both the ship and himself suddenly in their hands, he knew that there was only one way in which he could hope to sa... more info>> (Published: 1931)
Words: 69515 - Reading Time: 198-278 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Girl in the Golden Atom [MultiFormat]
by Ray Cummings
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Ray Cummings--one of the earliest pulp science fiction writers--crafted this early masterpiece in 1922. The tale of a scientist who sees a beautiful woman in the atoms of his mother's wedding ring (and his adventures when he shrinks himself down to join her microscopic world), The Girl in the Golden Atom is a classic of science fiction. Originally published in Argosy in 1922. (Published: 1922)
Words: 96088 - Reading Time: 274-384 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Light Country Trilogy: Tama of the Light Country; Tama, Princess of Mercury; Aerita of the Light Country [MultiFormat]
by Ray Cummings
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Fans of Burrough's Barsoom will Love this Classic Trilogy of Winged Women's Fight for Freedom! Set on Mercury as they thought it might be in the early part of the 20th century, Ray Cummings' Tama of the Light Country, tells of a winged princess from what was thought to be the habitable portion of Mercury, a belt of twilight that circled a world too hot on one side and too cold on the other to support life anywhere else. In rebellion against a repressive, male-dominated society, Tama meets Guy Pa... more info>>
Words: 97717 - Reading Time: 279-390 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Romance
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The Ray Cummings Omnibus: Brigands of the Moon; Wandl the Invader; Tarrano the Conqueror [MultiFormat]
by Ray Cummings
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Three Thrilling Golden Age Pulp Novels! When pirates threaten the mail run of a passenger ship to Luna, the ship's pilot and a brainy woman fight for their lives--and the lives of others in Brigands of the Moon. Then a wandering planet enters the solar system bent on conquest when Earth faces the peril of Wandl the Invader. In Cummings' best novel, only one brave woman can save the world when a would-be dictator rises to ruthlessly crush freedom and remake the world in the image of Tarrano the C... more info>>
Words: 182554 - Reading Time: 521-730 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Second Ray Cummings Omnibus: The White Invaders; The Girl in the Golden Atom; Beyond the Vanishing Point [MultiFormat]
by Ray Cummings
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Three Fast-Paced, Colorful Classics by a "Highly Regarded," "Founding Father" of Pulp Science Fiction. Two masterpieces from the pages of the Clayton Astounding Stories, and his most famous novel. Girl in the Golden Atom was the author's debut work of SF, a groundbreaking tale of romance and warfare inside a minature world visible only through the most powerful microscope. Then a pair of novels from the legendary Astounding: First, out of their unknown fourth dimensional realm materializes a ho... more info>>
Words: 155733 - Reading Time: 444-622 min.
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The Shadow Girl [MultiFormat]
by Ray Cummings
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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. ABOUT THE AUTHOR "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 scientifi... more info>> (Published: 1922)
Words: 46614 - Reading Time: 133-186 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Wandl the Invader [MultiFormat]
by Ray Cummings
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A CLASSIC NOVEL OF INTERPLANETARY WARFARE! There were nine major planets in the Solar System, and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet--a maverick! This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it was heading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raising turmoil on the t... more info>> (Published: 1932)
Words: 46691 - Reading Time: 133-186 min.
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