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TWO PLANETS CLASH FOR LUNAR TREASURE 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...
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This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table...
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This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table...
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[...]"The first of the new meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 11th. Astronomically, the event was recorded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently was a new star, increasing in the short space of a few hours from invisibility to a power beyond that of the first magnitude, and then as rapidly...
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A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world. Having worked for Thomas Alva Edison, Ray Cummings (1887-1957) was...
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"The White Invaders" by Ray Cummings. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
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Amazing Stories Volume 140 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three short stories by different authors: "Ahead of His Time" by Ray Cummings, and two stories by William Tenn, "The Ionian Cycle" and "Consulate".
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Ray Cummings 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, which was a consolidation of a short story by the same name. For this novel Cummings combined the idea of Fitz James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. During the 1940s,...
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Amazing Stories Volume 132 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by two different authors: "The Right Thing" by Ray Cummings, "The Marriage of William Durrant" by Ray Cummings, "Miracle" by Ray Cummings, "Galactic Ghost" by Walter Kubilius, and "Remember me, Kama!" by Walter Kubilius.
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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are six stories by Ray Cummings: "Gods of Space", "Monster of the Asteroid", "Phantom of the Seven Stars", "The War-Nymphs of Venus", "Space-Wolf", and "The Star-Master".
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Lovely Brenda Carson, scholarly Jerome, pompous Livingston ... everyone aboard the Seven Stars scoffed at the idea of a Phantom Pirate. But I.P. agent Jim Fanning didn't laugh. He knew the luxury-liner's innocent looking cargo was already marked for plunder.
Ray Cummings was one of the founding fathers of science fiction genre. He was the author of The Girl in the Golden Atom. His short stories appeared in Astounding, Planet Stories, and Argosy.