Ray Cummings (1) (1887–1957)
Auteur van A Brand New World
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Ray Cummings (1) via een alias veranderd in Raymond King Cummings.
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Fotografie: Image from Wonder Stories Quarterly Vol. 2 No. 2 - Interplanetary Number [Winter 1931]
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Werken van Ray Cummings
Titels zijn toegeschreven aan Raymond King Cummings.
Dimensione Infinita 3 exemplaren
Dissolvenza Infinita 3 exemplaren
Other Man’s Blood, The 2 exemplaren
Princess of the Moon 2 exemplaren
The Planet Smashers 2 exemplaren
Tarrass the Conqueror 2 exemplaren
Onslaught Of The Druid Girls 2 exemplaren
World Upside Down (short story) 2 exemplaren
Arton's Metal 2 exemplaren
Monster Of the Moon 1 exemplaar
Bandits of Time 1 exemplaar
The Great Transformation 1 exemplaar
Trapped in Eternity 1 exemplaar
Voyage 13 1 exemplaar
Elixir of Doom 1 exemplaar
Portrait 1 exemplaar
Shadow World 1 exemplaar
Science Can Wait 1 exemplaar
Death by the Clock 1 exemplaar
Wings of Icarus 1 exemplaar
Juggernaut of Space 1 exemplaar
The Disappearance of William Roger 1 exemplaar
The Curious Case of Norton Hoorne 1 exemplaar
Bandits of the Cylinder 1 exemplaar
Blood of the Moon 1 exemplaar
Crimes of the Year 2000 1 exemplaar
Studio Crime 1 exemplaar
World of Doom {novelette} 1 exemplaar
Little Monsters Come 1 exemplaar
Shadow Gold 1 exemplaar
Personality Plus (short story) 1 exemplaar
Ahead Of His Time 1 exemplaar
Requiem For A Small Planet 1 exemplaar
Around The Universe 1 exemplaar
The Three Eyed Man 1 exemplaar
Tales of the Scientific Crime Club 1 exemplaar
The Man Who Killed the World (short story) 1 exemplaar
The Thought-Woman (short story) 1 exemplaar
The Vanishing Men (short story) 1 exemplaar
When the Werewolf Howls (short story) 1 exemplaar
Perfume of Dark Desire (novelette) 1 exemplaar
The Man on the Meteor 1 exemplaar
Ice over America (novelette) 1 exemplaar
Priestess of the Moon (novelette) 1 exemplaar
Revolt in the Ice Empire (novelette) 1 exemplaar
Space-Liner X-87 1 exemplaar
New York 5000 1 exemplaar
The Shadow People 1 exemplaar
Corpses from Canvas (short story) 1 exemplaar
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Out of This World Adventures, July 1950 — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren
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Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, Vol. 03, No. 5, December 1941 (1941) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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- 1887-08-30
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- 1957-01-23
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- personal assistant to Thomas Edison
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- Raymond King Cummings was 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, which was a consolidation of a short story by the same name published in 1919 and a sequel, The People of the Golden Atom, published in 1920. In total he wrote some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.
During the 1940s, with his fiction career in eclipse, Cummings anonymously scripted comic book stories for Timely Comics, the predecessor to Marvel Comics. He recycled the plot of The Girl in the Golden Atom, for a two-part Captain America tale, "Princess of the Atom". (Captain America #25 & 26) He also contributed to the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner, which his daughter Betty Cummings also wrote.
Ray Cummings wrote in 1922, "Time... is what keeps everything from happening at once", a sentence repeated by scientists such as C. J. Overbeck, and John Archibald Wheeler.
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Ray Cummings is one of Science Fiction’s Founding Fathers, and though you may not be as familiar with his name as you should be, it doesn’t diminish his contributions to the genre. If you’ve ever heard the quote concerning time being that thing which prevents everything from happening at once, which is all too often attributed to Einstein and others, then you inadvertently know Ray Cummings. That quote is from The Girl in the Golden Atom, a pulp story which appeared for the first time — at least in part — in 1919! Time would be a recurring theme for Cummings in those burgeoning pulp days of Science Fiction. He wrote tons of stories, from weird menace and mystery to fantastic tales of time. Even the more prestigious Argosy published his stories.
This novel, The Exile of Time, despite first appearing in four parts in Astounding Stories Magazine in 1931, is a splendid example of his talent. And what a fun tale! George Rankin and his pal Larry are walking along in New York when they hear a scream, and discover a small and dainty, strange but beautiful girl behind a window in a house on Patton Place. Her name is Mary Atwood, and she’s screaming because she has suddenly found herself transported to the future from 1777!
Cummings set this tale in 1935, four years into the future, and it must have made the transition to other times easier for those reading it in 1931. Mary’s story of General Washington, a robot named Migul who told her he would return, and an evil cripple who tried it on with her and failed, seems utterly fantastic. Yet George and Larry, and Dr. Alten want to believe her. Research reveals that Tugh, the man Mary describes, in fact murdered a girl in 1932 who spurned his advances. Then he disappeared. George and Larry lay in wait for the robot named Migul, who is under the control of the evil Tugh, but the battle goes wrong, very wrong. Mary’s stories are all true!
A time cage is traveling through time so that Tugh can repair his damaged body, and wreak havoc on mankind. But the time cages are plural, as Princess Tina, from an American future yet to exist, and a man named Harl are chasing Migul, trying to prevent Tugh from changing everything. Our heroes get separated and Larry finds himself — at first — back in 1777. The cops think Dr. Alten is mad when he tells them his story of what he saw, but then the robots begin to emerge from Patton Place, and a battle ensues between these powerful robots from the future and a New York nearly helpless to stop the ensuing massacre.
Though this may sound a bit cheesy in describing it, it is only slightly pulpy during brief sections. In the hands of Cummings it is exciting and fun. Like Jack Williamson, Cummings included some theories and extrapolations that made it all seem grounded — at least for a pulp story. The characters and their reactions mirror our own, and we feel both the pull of romance and derring do as we ride along to 1777 on one front, are witness to the robot revolt of 1935 in the present (though 1935 was four years in the future when this was written), and witness the very far future of 2930 when all work is done by slave machines who have become almost human, and are on the cusp of revolt.
There is an explanation of time and time travel that refreshingly credits the Creator with creating time, and there are concepts here in Exile of Time which no doubt served as inspiration for those who came after pioneers of Science Fiction such as Ray Cummings and Jack Williamson. It certainly shows, that while an elevation beyond pulp was both inevitable, and a move forward for Science Fiction, something was lost as well; movement, excitement, and a magical sense of wonder.
The first section and the last of The Exile of Time are perhaps the best portions, but it’s all great fun, even quite thrilling in parts. Cummings creates a moral dilemma for the robot Migul, and manages to extract sympathy from the reader for Migul’s plight. The conclusion is very exciting, with a chase atop a dam, the rescue of Larry and Princess Tina, and then a final chase across time for George in order to save his Mary, and perhaps all mankind.
The story has wonderful movement, likable characters we root for, and even manages to elicit sympathy for robots like Migul. Wonderful fun for fans of early Science Fiction, this novel is sadly out of print. However, by downloading for FREE the April, May, June and July issues of Astounding Stories from Gutenberg, you can read it in its entirety, as it originally appeared in four parts! As a bonus, Jack Williamson’s Lake of Light is also in one of these issues, as is another good Williamson story. The Exile of Time is clean, old-fashioned fun, from those early days of wonder when anything and everything seemed possible.
“Is this perchance an explanation of why the pages of history are so thronged with tales of ghosts? There must, indeed, be many future ages down the corridors of Time where the genius of man will invent devices to fling him back into the past. And the impressions upon the past which he makes are called supernatural.”
“Who can say, up to 1935, how many Time-traveling humans have come briefly back? Is this, perchance, what we call the phenomena of the supernatural?”
Here is the Gutenberg link — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=the exile of time ray cummings… (meer)