The Light Country Trilogy - Ray Cummings

The Light Country Trilogy - Ray Cummings
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1 - Tama of the light Country
2 - Tama, Princess of Mercury
3 - Aerita of the Light Country

Ray (Raymond King) Cummings (1887-1957) was one of the early pioneering pulp science fiction writers. Cummings' big claim to fame was that he was the only science fiction writer who had ever worked directly for Tom Edison as his assistant.

Fans of Burrough's Barsoom will Love this Classic Trilogy of Winged Women's
Fight for Freedom! Set on Mercury as they thought it might be in the early part
of the 20th century, Ray Cummings' Tama of the Light Country, tells of a winged
princess from what was thought to be the habitable portion of Mercury, a belt of
twilight that circled a world too hot on one side and too cold on the other to
support life anywhere else. In rebellion against a repressive, male-dominated
society, Tama meets Guy Palisse, who shares her outrage at the way women are
mistreated on Mercury. Together with like-minded women and men, they lead a
fight for freedom for the women of Mercury that will have tragic, unintended
consequences for Earth. In Tama, Princess of Mercury, Guy and Tama's triumph at
the end of Book I is about to turn to disaster, for barbarian hoards from
Mercury's dark side have seized spaceships, followed them, and even now are
sweeping down on the unsuspecting Earth. To prevent the people of the twilight
belt from joining the battle on our planet's side, the barbarian leaders' plan
is to kidnap Tama and use her as a hostage. And, Tama is alone, pirouetting
through Earth's evening sky. Aerita of the Light Country is Cummings' final
novel of the winged women of Mercury. Years have passed, 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 behind held. Argosy
magazine said, "As a flight of pure imagination, plus a most unusual scientific
knowledge, and plus again a rare power of fantasy and delicate romance Cummings'
has few equals." Don't miss this legendary science fiction trilogy, together for
the first time in one inexpensive bargain Omnibus Edition.
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