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- Herausgeber: Wildside Press
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
A summons from yesterday, a promise from tomorrow—they commanded Alan Dane to tear apart the pages of history...to save his unborn son!
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
MIRACLE, by Ray Cummings
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Copyright © 2022 by Wildside Press LLC.
Originally published in Astonishing Stories, October 1942.
Published by Wildside Press LLC.
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INTRODUCTION
To anyone interested in the roots of modern science fiction, the name of Ray Cummings (1887–1957) should already be well known. He wrote at the dawn of the science fiction field, publishing genre stories in mainstream magazines like Argosy, Munsey’s Magazine, and other top publications of the day. Of course, as soon as the science fiction pulp magazines debuted, he moved to them, where his work received a hearty welcome from fans. He continued publishing through the 1950s.
Cummings was born in New York City. He worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919, which provided much background for his fiction. His most famous work remains the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom, first published in 1922. It combined a short story by the same name first published in 1919 (in which he combined an idea of Fitz James O'Brien’s The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine), and its sequel, “The People of the Golden Atom,” which appeared in 1920.
During the 1940s, with his literary career in decline—his work was decidedly old-fashioned in comparison to that of Asimov, Heinlein, van Vogt, and the other new authors—Cummings found himself relegated to second-tier science fiction magazines. He began to turn to comic books for a market, and he soon found work writing for Timely Comics, the predecessor to Marvel Comics. In those days, comics appealed to a much younger and far less sophisticated audience. For Timely, he recycled the plot of The Girl in the Golden Atom as a two-part Captain America tale, Princess of the Atom (Captain America Comics #25 & 26). He also contributed stories to the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner, sometimes in collaboration with his daughter, Betty Cummings (who also wrote comics scripts by herself, often using her father’s more famous name). He also began to write mysteries, often with a science-based or fantastic twist.
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—John Betancourt
Cabin John, Maryland
MIRACLE,by Ray Cummings
“But how can you possibly know that time traveling has never been done?” the chemist protested. “Someone from our future may have gone into the past many times.”
“I should think they’d have created quite a commotion,” the lawyer observed. “Wouldn’t we have heard of it from our historical records?”
“Of course.” The chemist was smiling now. “We probably have. History tells of many important occasions on which a ‘vision’ appeared. A miraculous presence, such as Joan of Arc, for instance, or the Angel of Mons.”
