Background
He was born in New York and died in Mount Vernon, New New York
(A mysterious tower appears in the middle of a city, beari...)
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.
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He was born in New York and died in Mount Vernon, New New York
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 (where Cummings combined the idea of Fitz James O"Brien"s The Diamond Lens with H G Wells"s The Time Machine) and a sequel, The People of the Golden Atom, published in 1920. His career resulted in 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". 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.
(A mysterious tower appears in the middle of a city, beari...)
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