The Fire People by Ray Cummings - All-Story Weekly - Oct 21 thru Nov 18, 1922
Ray Cummings
All-Story Weekly - Oct 21 thru Nov 18, 1922 - [Only Contains - The Fire People by Ray Cummings] - 110 pages PLOT: Invasion from Mercury. This is how the invasion began. The farmer saw a huge fire burning near the center of his field. "It was circular in form and about thirty feet in diameter. He was astonished to see it there, but what surprised him more was its peculiar aspect." A glow began to emanate from it. The thing was later to be called the "Mercutian Light". And whatever entered the light was destroyed. The fate of the Earth was in the hands of Bob Trevor, a newspaperman, Professor Newland, and others. Would the Earth be saved from the invaders from Mercury? Is this story similar to H G Wells' War of the Worlds? Read it to find out. Ray Cummings was called the "American H.G. Wells" and one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". THE FIRE PEOPLE is one of his early space adventures. It was originally serialized in 5 parts in All-Story Weekly Magazine (Oct 21 thru Nov 18, 1922). This upload only contains the complete text of "The Fire People." There are no other stories from All-Story Magazine.
- Series
- The Fire People by Ray Cummings
- Genres
- Science fiction, Science and mechanics
- Language
- English
- Collection
- The Pulp Magazine Archive
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as the archive states it)
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Internet Archive