Note: Magazine version serialized in "Argosy Weekly"

Synopsis: 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. From the back cover of the Ace first printing: Are all the artificial satellites circling the Earth ours? How can we be sure that these little metal globes, these observational devices with their top-secret interiors, were all made on Earth? Perhaps there is one up there that was not? When such a space satellite was located, it caused a furore. But that was nothing to what happened when it was accompanied by a mysterious rash of kidnappings - young girls were being taken away, carried off to some strange destiny in outer space! TAMA OF THE LIGHT COUNTRY is the startling novel of the conflict with Mercury - the smallest world of the solar system - which harbored an unsuspected secret.