Showing posts with label Ray Cummings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ray Cummings. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

"Thrilling Wonder Stories", December 1940 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Cover image of the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1940 issue. It is a painting by E K Bergey, depicting a scene from the story The Life Machines by Manly Wade Williams.Scans of the magazine are available online as a CBR file as part of a larger package.

Table of contents.

  1. [novel] Edmond Hamilton's "Gift from the Stars": '"Human zero" Padgett never had the nerve to fight for his rights - till the mighty science of Vega showed him how to change a decimal point of a man to an important figure!"
  2. [novelet] Manly Wade Williams' "The Life Machines": "Man's successor follows the path of suicide until the Science Research Battalion steps in to save a robot race from despair & annihilation!"
  3. [novelet] G T Fleming-Roberts' "The Golden Barrier": "Between the hemispheres rises a wall of doom, & Hyatt of International Police tries to beat Earth's solitary confinement!"
  4. [ss] Sam Merwin, Jr's "Exiled from Earth": "The man without a world hated the planet that banished him - but he couldn't let it die!"
  5. [ss] Gordon A Giles' "Via Intelligence": "Stranded, the expedition must buy its way off the Furnace Plant, at the price of death if they win - & death if they lose!"
  6. [ss] Kenneth L Harrison's "The Blond, The Time Machine, & Johny Bell": "Johnny set out to make his fortune in the future - but the payoff was too fast even for a time-traveler!"
  7. [ss] Ray Cummings' "World Upside Down": "The the world doesn't spin fast enough for Tubby, the amateur scientist, he starts his own revolution!"

Related.

  1. Fiction from Thrilling Wonder Stories.
  2. "Pulp" magazines.
  3. Fiction from 1940s.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

"Thrilling Wonder Stories", Vol 8 No 2 (October 1936) (ed Mort Weisinger): Annotated table of contents

Cover image of Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine, October 1936 issue. It shows the climax of the story Man-Jewels for Xothar by Hal K Wells - an earthman against an invader from outer galaxies.
This magazine's scans in CBR format are online at Crosseyed Cyclops.
Caution:  I've linked this magazine without ToC in the past; regulars might already have the CBR on local storage.

Table of contents. 

Links on author fetch more fiction by author.

  1. [novelette] Ray Cummings' "Shadow Gold": "Johnny Hall boards the Transition Express for Bhana, the city beyond space, where treasure is cheap as dirt & enemies lust for power!"
  2. [novelette] Hal K Wells' "Man-Jewels for Xothar": "Giant worm-beings from beyond the solar system descend to earth, armed with death!"
  3. [novelette] Ralph Milne Farley's "Liquid Life": "Bio-chemical science discovers an amazing alien being that thinks, talks--and destroys!"
  4. [novelette] Arthur J Burks' "Dictator of the Atoms": "A fiendish wizard straitjackets the forces of science to wreck a cosmic catastrophe!"
  5. [ss] Edmond Hamilton's "Cosmic Quest": "To save a race from destruction, a star-roving explorer speeds through a boundless universe!"
  6. [ss] Abraham Merritt's "Rhythm of the Spheres": "A world where robots reign--and the last poet strikes out for freedom!"
  7. [ss] Paul Ernst's "The Microscopic Giants": "Men go forty thousand feet below the surface to find copper--and battle with the scurrying, Lilliputian denizens of a strange land of atomic compression!"
  8. [ss] D L James' "Crystals of Madness": "Humanity is menaced by an insidious, sentient life-force on the satellite Deimos!"

See also.

  1. Fiction from Thrilling Wonder Stories
  2. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
  3. Fiction from 1930s.
Credits: I found editor's name from ISFDB

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Free fiction: G W Thomas links online stories of Ray Cummings

At Dark Worlds. While I've sometimes seen his stories, I am yet to read anything by Cummings.