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
Current Tags: viking (1), prehistoric (1) Add Tags
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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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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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 |
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Argosy, December 27, 1930 | 1930-12-27 | ed. Editors of Argosy | Frank A. Munsey | $0.10?$: US dollar |
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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 | |
燃えつきた水星人?Nen etsuki ta Suisei jin |
1975-12-01 |
レイ・カミングス?Rei Kamingusu |
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
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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. |
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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. |
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Reviews
- Review by Michael Moorcock [as by James Colvin] (1966) in New Worlds, March 1966