Ray Cummings - Собрание сочинений Годы выпуска: 1931-2025 г. Автор: Cummings, Ray / Каммингс, Рэй Язык: Английский Формат: fb2/epub Качество: OCR/eBook Релиз группы: Описание: Рэй Каммингс (Raymond King Cummings, 30 августа 1887 г. - 23 января 1957 г.) - американский писатель и инженер.
Начал публиковаться в 1919 году, дебютная публикация — рассказ «Девушка в золотом атоме» («The Girl in the Golden Atom») в журнале «All-Story» (выпуск от 15 марта). На протяжении 1920—1930-х годов Каммингс оставался одним из наиболее популярных авторов журнала «Argosy» и нескольких других, в которых напечатал множество рассказов и ряд романов в разных жанрах, но наибольшую популярность приобрели его произведения в жанре приключенческой фантастики. Считается, что он способствовал значительному росту популярности этого жанра до появления специализированных журналов фантастики.
Основные произведения Каммингса — цикл «Материя, Пространство и Время»: романы «Люди огня» («The Fire People», 1922), «Человек, который повелевал временем» («The Man Who Mastered Time», 1924), «Принцесса атома» («Princess of the Atom», 1929), «Теневая девушка» («The Shadow Girl», 1929), «Бегство из времени» («The Excile of Time», 1931). Дилогия «Тама» написана в подражание «марсианской» серии Э. Р. Берроуза: земную девушку похищают жители Меркурия, и она постепенно становится их повелительницей: «Тама из Страны Света» («Tama of the Light Country», 1930), «Тама, принцесса Меркурия» («Tama, Princess of Mercury», 1931).
Помимо романов, Каммингс написал множество повестей и рассказов — фантастических, детективных и приключенческих, — для разных тематических pulp-журналов. Его произведения на протяжении 1920—1940-х годов часто появлялись в специализированных журналах фантастики «Amazing Stories», «Astounding Science Fiction», «Wonder Stories» и других.
Список книг:
Циклы:
Gregg Haljan
01 Brigands of the Moon 2020, epub, Jerry eBooks 02 Wandl the Invader 2015, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4732-1657-0, Gateway / Orion
Matter, Space and Time
Space
The Princess of the Atom 2025, epub, Project Gutenberg The Fire People / Огненные люди 2015, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4732-1623-5, Gateway / Orion
The Scientific Club
The Girl in the Golden Atom 2015, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4732-1656-3, Gateway / Orion
Time
The Man Who Mastered Time 2016, epub, Jerry eBooks The Shadow Girl 2020, epub, Jerry eBooks The Exile of Time 2016, epub, epubBooks
Tama
01 Tama of the Light Country 2016, epub, epubBooks 02 Tama, Princess of Mercury 1966, epub, Ace Books 03 Aerita of the Light Country 2018, epub, epubBooks
Романы:
Tarrano the Conqueror 2015, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4732-1624-2, Gateway / Orion The Sea Girl 2025, epub, Jerry eBooks The Man on the Meteor / Человек на метеоре 2024, epub, Project Gutenberg Beyond the Stars 2016, epub, epubBooks A Brand New World 2016, epub, epubBooks Explorers Into Infinity 2020, epub, Jerry eBooks
Сборники:
The Ray Cummings Megapack 2013, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4344-4340-3, Wildside Press
Содержание:
The Girl in the Golden Atom The Silver Veil The Fire People / Огненные люди Two Proposals Jetta of the Lowlands The White Invaders Requiem for a Small Planet Brigands of the Moon Wandl the Invader Tarrano the Conqueror Phantoms of Reality / Призраки реальности Dr. Feather in "A Shot in the Dark" Dr. Feather in "Murder in the Fog" Dr. Feather in "The Dead Man Laughs" Dr. Feather in "Clue in Crimson" The World Beyond Gadget Girl Precipice Photograph of Death Stamp of Doom The Scalpel of Doom Atom Boy The Lifted Veil Beyond the Vanishing Point The Girl from Infinite Smallness
Повести и рассказы:
The Soul of Henry Jones 2024, epub, Project Gutenberg Into the Fourth Dimension 2024, epub, Project Gutenberg The Derelict of Space / Заброшенный в пространство 1931, fb2 (with William T. Thurmond) An Ultimatum from Mars 1939, epub The Man Who Killed the World (= The Man Who Killed the Earth) 2020, epub, Project Gutenberg Arton's Metal 1940, fb2 Space-Liner X-87 1940, epub Revolt in the Ice Empire 2020, epub, Project Gutenberg Phantom of the Seven Stars 1940, epub Priestess of the Moon 1940, fb2 Space-Flight of Terror 2020, epub, ISBN: 9781479459872, Wildside Press The War-Nymphs of Venus 1941, epub Space-Wolf 1941, epub The Robot God 2020, epub, Jerry eBooks Monster of the Asteroid 1941, epub Monster of the Moon 1941, fb2 Gods of Space 1942, epub The Star-Master 1942, epub The Flame Breathers 1943, epub The Golden Temple 1943, fb2 Juggernaut of Space 1945, epub The Little Monsters Come 1948, epub
Примеры текстов:
The Girl in the Golden Atom
CHAPTER IA UNIVERSE IN AN ATOM“Then you mean to say there is no such thing as the smallest particle of matter?” asked the Doctor.
“You can put it that way if you like,” the Chemist replied. “In other words, what I believe is that things can be infinitely small just as well as they can be infinitely large. Astronomers tell us of the immensity of space. I have tried to imagine space as finite. It is impossible. How can you conceive the edge of space? Something must be beyond—something or nothing, and even that would be more space, wouldn’t it?”
“Gosh,” said the Very Young Man, and lighted another cigarette.
The Chemist resumed, smiling a little. “Now, if it seems probable that there is no limit to the immensity of space, why should we make its smallness finite? How can you say that the atom cannot be divided? As a matter of fact, it already has been. The most powerful microscope will show you realms of smallness to which you can penetrate no other way. Multiply that power a thousand times, or ten thousand times, and who shall say what you will see?”
. . .
The Exile of Time
IThe extraordinary incidents began about 1 A.M. in the night of June 8–9, 1935. I was walking through Patton Place, in New York City, with my friend Larry Gregory. My name is George Rankin. My business and Larry’s—are details quite unimportant to this narrative. We had been friends in college. Both of us were working in New York; and with all our relatives in the middle west we were sharing an apartment on this Patton Place—a short, crooked, little–known street of not particularly impressive residential buildings lying near the section known as Greenwich Village, where towering office buildings of the business district encroach close upon it.
This night at 1 A.M. it was deserted. A taxi stood at a corner; its driver had left it there, and evidently gone to a nearby lunch room. The night was sultry and dark, with a leaden sky. The houses were mostly unlighted at this hour. There was an occasional apartment house among them, but mostly they were low, ramshackle affairs of brick and stone.
We were still three blocks from our apartment when without warning the incidents began which were to plunge us and all the city into disaster.
. . .
