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Cummings, Raymond King

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Cover of a 1958 Ace Books reprint of Brigands of the Moon, by Ray Cummings.

Ray Cummings (Raymond King Cummings) was an author of Science Fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the Science Fiction pulp genre"[1]. He was born August 30, 1887 in New York and died January 23, 1957 in Mount Vernon.

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. His career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories, using also the pen names Ray King, Gabrielle Cummings, and Gabriel Wilson.

External links

Science Fiction inventions of Ray Cummings
Works by Ray Cummings at Project Gutenberg
Ray Cummings at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

This biographical information was gathered from the Raymond_King_Cummings page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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