Raymond King Cummings Contemporary English

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by Raymond King Cummings

ISBN: 1406849731
ISBN13: 978-1406849738
Language: English
Publisher: Echo Library (March 11, 2008)
Pages: 164
Category: Contemporary
Subategory: Literature

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BRIGANDS of the MOON. In spite of our secrecy,the news has gotten out.

BRIGANDS of the MOON. I. Our ship, the space-flyer, Planetara, whose home port was GreaterNew York, carried mail and passenger traffic to and from both Venusand Mars. Of astronomical necessity, our flights were irregular. Thespring of 2070, with both planets close to the Earth, we were makingtwo complete round trips. We want to know how.

Ray Cummings (born Raymond King Cummings) (August 30, 1887 – January 23, 1957) was an American author of science fiction literature and comic books. Cummings was born in New York City in 1887. He worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919. Cummings is identified as one of the "founding fathers" of the science fiction genre.

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Ray Cummings (byname of Raymond King Cummings; 1887 - 1957) was an American author of science fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre. He was born in New York City and died in Mount Vernon, New York. Cummings worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919.

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Brigands of the Moon book. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson. Other books in the series.

LibriVox recording of Brigands of the Moon, by Ray Cummings Both the story and the narration are super, and I plan to reprint the book on paper for Christmas 2011.

LibriVox recording of Brigands of the Moon, by Ray Cummings. Both the story and the narration are super, and I plan to reprint the book on paper for Christmas 2011. About space ships and aliens. This story is set in the time when people still thought Martians lived on Mars, and the moon was a place of riches.

Ray Cummings (1887-1957) Ray Cummings was the working name of US writer Raymond King Cummings . He is rated as one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre".

Ray Cummings (1887-1957) Ray Cummings was the working name of US writer Raymond King Cummings, author of over 600 stories under various names. His most prolific period was between 1935 and 1942, when he wrote more than half of these works. Cummings was a personal assistant to Thomas Edison and a technical writer from 1914 to 1919. His most highly regarded work was The Girl in the Golden Atom, published in 1922, which was an expanded version of a short story of the same name, published three years earlier.

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An interesting, exciting story that is older by comparison. The terminology used in the story is not what we use today. There are quite a few times that I had to think of what was going on to understand the meaning of the story.

Cerekelv

I'm amazed at the writings of so long ago. Much of the conversations reminded me of old westerns. I'm glad i read it.

Teonyo

This 1931 story has some staying power - 80+ years after it was written, I'm still willing to read it through. To tell the truth, though, I'm not wholly sure why.

The plot's a little loose. Some regularly scheduled cruiser that serves Venus, Earth, and Mars has a mysterious detour toward The Moon (Earth's moon, the only The in that category). And msyterious characters come aboard ship, some with whisperings of dark dealings. And there's a secret private enterprise moon mission (shades of Ayn Rand!) in search of vast treasure. And, if our good guys will only succumb to temptation, there will be gold! Lots and lots of gold! And a woman, until proven otherwise, is only as good as her uterus. The the romantic interest[s] set in, including a one-sided triangle, and evil Martians, and lovely and lovable Venusians, and ...

Well, given that much, the rest hardly matters. You can probably imagine a dozen outcomes, all of which involve good guys getting theirs, bad guys getting theirs, and deserving women getting their men. As fiction, the plotting, dark deeds, and sneering badguys remain readable (just barely). The cultural specimen, frozen in time like a bug in amber, more than makes up for any dramaturguc shortcomings. This derives from about the same era as Doc Smith and Flash Gordon. But, even by those standards it comes across as flat and scripted.

It's available free on the net, and worth every penny. Good if you like the sense of history, not so much if your sensibilities are more up to date and irony isn't a reflex for you. Imagine a book on tape with MST3K commentary - that's probably the ideal venue for this woofer.

-- wiredweird

Punind

If you're expecting high quality literature here, forget it.

This is 1930's era science fiction.

Ray Cummings had a lot of his stuff in "The Argosy", an old Pulp Magazine.

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A tale of pirates in a space setting. A fun listen or read. I listened to it with a Librivox sound file. Not Cumming's best work.