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The Fire People

by Ray Cummings

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  1. The Coming of the Light

    16:19

  2. The Unknown Enemy

    10:38

  3. The Landing of the Invaders

    13:28

  4. The Meeting

    11:28

  5. Captured!

    13:01

  6. Miela

    14:47

  7. The Mercutian Camp

    12:27

  8. The Escape

    14:33

  9. Futile Attacks

    13:58

  10. Miela's Story

    16:41

  11. To Save the World

    12:19

  12. The Landing on Mercury

    19:56

  13. The Captive Earth-Man

    20:33

  14. The Ruler of the Light Country

    25:45

  15. The Mountain Conclave

    18:49

  16. The Fire Planet

    7:47

  17. The Fight at the Bayou

    27:27

  18. Revolution

    22:07

  19. The New Ruler

    25:19

  20. In the Twilight Country

    19:47

  21. Another Light-Ray!

    14:44

  22. The Theft of the Light-Ray

    13:56

  23. The Storm

    15:02

  24. The Water City

    20:45

  25. Preparations for War

    10:57

  26. The Battle

    19:57

  27. The Siege of the Lone City

    19:43

  28. The End of Tao

    26:29

  29. The Return

    9:27

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A brilliant meteor falls into a Massachusetts field in November 1940 and keeps burning with a strange green and red light that water cannot touch and only a record cold spell puts out. The narrator, a reporter for the Boston Observer, watches the crowds gather, sees an aircraft fall in flames after passing over the beam, and follows the news as a second fireball lands near Juneau, Alaska.

When Professor Newland, the leading astronomer of the day, argues that these lights point to intelligent life on Mercury, the story turns from mystery to adventure. The chapters move from invaders and a daring escape to a landing on the planet itself, with its sunlit Light Country, its colder Twilight Country, a winged people who fly in great numbers, and a schemer named Tao.

Ray Cummings wrote it as a serial for the pulp weekly Argosy All-Story in 1922, and it reads like the planetary romances of that period: brisk, inventive and full of light-rays, flying folk and alien cities. It suits readers curious about how American science fiction looked in the early pulp magazines.

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Ray Cummings

Ray Cummings (1887-1957) was an American author and a pioneer of pulp science fiction, once an assistant to Thomas Edison. His prolific stories helped shape the early genre.

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