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Title: Tama of the Light Country Title Record # 11829
Author: Ray Cummings
Date: 1965-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Tama
Series Number: 1
Language: English
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.
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Translations Serializations
Year Language Title
1975Translated by 竹中芳 (Yoshi Takanaka).
Japanese
燃えつきた水星人?Nen etsuki ta Suisei jin
[as by ]
1981 Italian Nella terra della grande luce
Year Title
1930 Tama of the Light Country (Part 1 of 3)
1930 Tama of the Light Country (Part 2 of 3)
1930 Tama of the Light Country (Part 3 of 3)

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Argosy, December 13, 1930 1930-12-13 ed. Editors of Argosy Frank A. Munsey  
$0.10?$: US dollar
 
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag Robert A. Graef  
Argosy, December 20, 1930 1930-12-20 ed. Editors of Argosy Frank A. Munsey  
$0.10?$: US dollar
 
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Argosy, December 27, 1930 1930-12-27 ed. Editors of Argosy Frank A. Munsey  
$0.10?$: US dollar
 
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Tama of the Light Country 1965-00-00 Ray Cummings Ace Books F-363
$0.40?$: US dollar
124
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Jerome Podwil Checkmark
燃えつきた水星人?Nen etsuki ta Suisei jin
1975-12-01
久保書店?Kubo Shoten
(
QTブックス SF?QTbukkusu SF
#24)
 
¥580?¥: Japanese yen
187
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel
石原豪人?Goto Ishihara
 
La principessa della luce 1981-06-00 Ray Cummings Libra Editrice (I Classici della Fantascienza #54) 54
Lit 9,500?Lit: Italian lira
292
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Allison  
Tama of the Light Country 2008-03-30 Ray Cummings Wildside Press 978-1-4344-6474-3
$29.95?$: US dollar
128
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel  
Tama of the Light Country 2008-03-30 Ray Cummings Wildside Press 978-1-4344-6473-6
$14.95?$: US dollar
128
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel  
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