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Утопический роман «Следующий мир». В отличие от других аналогичных произведений того времени — утопия Зеликовича пространственная, ее герои путешествуют не во времени, а попадают на утопический «остров», расположенный в «четвертом измерении». Английский математик Брукс открывает способ проникнуть в сопредельный мир и попадает на планету Айю. На Айе все, как на Земле, только лучше, рациональнее и красивее: хлев напоминает райский уголок, все аборигены вегетарианцы и живут в городах, различаемых по номерам и выстроенных по единому образцу; дети воспитываются в огромном интернате, и так далее… Сюжет второго роомана весьма незатейлив. По…

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 fading again to invisibility. This star was recorded by two of the other great North American observatories, and by one in the Argentine Republic. That it was comparatively small in mass and exceedingly close to the earth, even when first discovered, was obvious. All observers agreed that it was a heavenly body of an entirely new order.

Groff ruled the world through Fear. Fear of his awful power … his twisted, mad brain. For one day that brain would crack. When it did, the World would dissolve in cataclysmic Chaos.

To anyone interested in the roots of modern science fiction, the name of Ray Cummings should be well known. He wrote science fiction and fantasy before the name "science fiction" had been coined, publishing fantastic yarns in Argosy, Munsey's Magazine, and other mainstream magazines. Of course, as soon as the science fiction pulps debuted, he moved to them, where his work received a hearty welcome from fans. Cummings publishing more than 750 novels and short stories over his long career, producing work in many genres, including the mystery field (see "Atom Boy" in this MEGAPACKfor one prime example). We are pleased to showcase 25 of his tales, ranging from science fiction to fantasy to mystery...more than 2,000 pages of great reading!

Included are:

THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM (1919-1920)
THE SILVER VEIL (1921)
THE FIRE PEOPLE (1922)
TWO PROPOSALS (1923)
JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS (1930)
THE WHITE INVADERS (1931)
REQUIEM FOR A SMALL PLANET (1958)
BRIGANDS OF THE MOON (1931)
WANDL THE INVADER (1932)
TARRANO THE CONQUEROR (1930)
PHANTOMS OF REALITY (1930)
DR. FEATHER IN "A SHOT IN THE DARK" (1936)
DR. FEATHER IN "MURDER IN THE FOG" (1937)
DR. FEATHER IN "THE DEAD MAN LAUGHS" (1938)
DR. FEATHER IN "CLUE IN CRIMSON" (1943)
THE WORLD BEYOND (1938)
GADGET GIRL (1944)
PRECIPICE (1945)
PHOTOGRAPH OF DEATH (1945)
STAMP OF DOOM (1946)
THE SCALPEL OF DOOM (1947)
ATOM BOY (1947)
THE LIFTED VEIL (1947)
BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT (1958)
THE GIRL FROM INFINITE SMALLNESS (1940)
PLANET STORIES' FEATURE FLASH: MEET RAY CUMMINGS

And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see 400+ more entries in this great series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns—and much, much more!

The lure of precious zolonite drew Morgan to barren Titan—to find a weird beast-empire ruled by a cold-eyed Earth-girl queen.

The voluptuous golden civilization of Arron was doomed. Licentious laughter echoed through the water-kingdom, unmindful of the relentless, clanking invasion of the Gorts. What fools, this handful of warrior-maidens led by a puny Earthman, to pit their thin strength against Tollgamo's iron army! A classic space-opera from the Golden Age of Science Fiction!

Sanjan Thome, the radioactive man, seals his own doom by striving to save the world from ultimate disaster!

Vulcan was a doom-world. One expedition had mysteriously disappeared, and now another was following in its path—searching for the unknown menace that stalked Vulcan's shadowed gorges.

Aerita of the Light Country is Cummings' final novel of the winged women of Mercury. Years have passed, and the doings of Tama, Princess of Mercury, have become the stuff of legend to the women of the Light Country. But now tyranny threatens the winged daughters of the first planet again, and one fearless young woman, Aerita, inspired by the stories of Tama, locates Guy Palisse's legendary spacecar and blasts off for Earth in search of help.There she finds herself a prisoner in a traveling menagerie, taken captive and presented to the public as a strange creature from South America. Then Alan Grant steps into the tawdry sideshow where Aerita is being held to kill an idle hour—and found himself plunged head-over-heels into a maelstrom of battling adventure that took him across a hundred million miles of space, involved him in a vast civil war on an alien planet, and shouldered him with the fearsome responsibility for the safety of Earth!

"The Big Idea" 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 are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet—a maverick! This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it was heading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to the Earth-Mars space ways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raising turmoil on the two inhabited worlds.

"In «Tarrano the Conqueror» is presented a tale of the year 2430 A.D.—a time somewhat farther beyond our present-day era than we are beyond Columbus' discovery of America. My desire has been to create for you the impression that you have suddenly been plunged forward into that time—to give you the feeling Columbus might have had could he have read a novel of our present-day life."

When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of miniature perfection—an infinitely tiny universe within a golden atom!

But for Randolph it was also a world aglow with danger. Somewhere in its tiny vastness were the friends he had to rescue. Captives of a madman, they had been reduced to native Orena size; to return to Earth they needed the growth capsules Randolph was bringing them. It was up to Randolph to find them—and quickly—for the longer they stayed tiny, the closer they came to passing beyond the vanishing point!

Beyond the Point of Unknown is Ray Cummings' collection of space travel and alien contact novels. It brings some of the author's best works placed within our Solar System and distant worlds. You will meet different kinds of alien races from all over the universe and discover their interaction with humans. Brigands of the Moon The Fire People The White Invaders The World Beyond Wandl the Invader