Ray Cummings (1) (1887–1957)
Auteur de A Brand New World
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Ray Cummings, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Ray Cummings (1) a été combiné avec Raymond King Cummings.
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Crédit image: Image from Wonder Stories Quarterly Vol. 2 No. 2 - Interplanetary Number [Winter 1931]
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Œuvres de Ray Cummings
Les œuvres ont été combinées en Raymond King Cummings.
Dimensione Infinita 3 exemplaires
Dissolvenza Infinita 3 exemplaires
Other Man’s Blood, The 2 exemplaires
Princess of the Moon 2 exemplaires
The Planet Smashers 2 exemplaires
Tarrass the Conqueror 2 exemplaires
Onslaught Of The Druid Girls 2 exemplaires
World Upside Down (short story) 2 exemplaires
Arton's Metal 2 exemplaires
Monster Of the Moon 1 exemplaire
Bandits of Time 1 exemplaire
The Great Transformation 1 exemplaire
Trapped in Eternity 1 exemplaire
Voyage 13 1 exemplaire
Elixir of Doom 1 exemplaire
Portrait 1 exemplaire
Shadow World 1 exemplaire
Science Can Wait 1 exemplaire
Death by the Clock 1 exemplaire
Wings of Icarus 1 exemplaire
Juggernaut of Space 1 exemplaire
The Disappearance of William Roger 1 exemplaire
The Curious Case of Norton Hoorne 1 exemplaire
Bandits of the Cylinder 1 exemplaire
Blood of the Moon 1 exemplaire
Crimes of the Year 2000 1 exemplaire
Studio Crime 1 exemplaire
World of Doom {novelette} 1 exemplaire
Little Monsters Come 1 exemplaire
Shadow Gold 1 exemplaire
Personality Plus (short story) 1 exemplaire
Ahead Of His Time 1 exemplaire
Requiem For A Small Planet 1 exemplaire
Around The Universe 1 exemplaire
The Three Eyed Man 1 exemplaire
Tales of the Scientific Crime Club 1 exemplaire
The Man Who Killed the World (short story) 1 exemplaire
The Thought-Woman (short story) 1 exemplaire
The Vanishing Men (short story) 1 exemplaire
When the Werewolf Howls (short story) 1 exemplaire
Perfume of Dark Desire (novelette) 1 exemplaire
The Man on the Meteor 1 exemplaire
Ice over America (novelette) 1 exemplaire
Priestess of the Moon (novelette) 1 exemplaire
Revolt in the Ice Empire (novelette) 1 exemplaire
Space-Liner X-87 1 exemplaire
New York 5000 1 exemplaire
The Shadow People 1 exemplaire
Corpses from Canvas (short story) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Les œuvres ont été combinées en Raymond King Cummings.
Under the Moons of Mars - A History and Anthology of The Scientific Romance in the Munsey Magazines 1912 - 1920 (1970) — Contributeur — 67 exemplaires
Out of This World Adventures, July 1950 — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Super science stories : No. 13 2 exemplaires
Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, Vol. 03, No. 5, December 1941 (1941) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Cummings, Ray
- Nom légal
- Cummings, Raymond King
- Autres noms
- King, Ray
Cummings, Gabrielle
Wilson, Gabriel - Date de naissance
- 1887-08-30
- Date de décès
- 1957-01-23
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Mount Vernon, New York, USA
- Professions
- personal assistant to Thomas Edison
writer - Relations
- Edison, Thomas (employer)
- Courte biographie
- 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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 90
- Aussi par
- 13
- Membres
- 865
- Popularité
- #29,595
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 159
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 1
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… (plus d'informations)