This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it was heading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raising turmoil on the two inhabited worlds.
But even so none suspected then just how much trouble this new world would make. For it was WANDL THE INVADER and it was no barren planetoid. It was a manned world, manned by minds and monsters and traveling into our system with a purpose beyond that of astronomical accident!
It's a terrific novel from the classic days of great science-fiction adventure—now first published in book form. When RAY CUMMINGS took leave of this planet early in 1957, the world of modern science-fiction lost one of its genuine founding fathers. For the imagination of this talented writer supplied a great many of the most basic themes upon which the present superstructure of science-fiction is based. Following the lead of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, Cummings successfully bridged the gap between the early dawning of science-fiction in the last decades of the Nineteenth Century and the full flowering of the field in these middle decades of the Twentieth.
Born in 1887, Cummings acquired insight into the vast possibilities of future science by a personal association with Thomas Alva Edison. During the 1920's and 1930's, he thrilled millions of readers with his vivid tales of space and time. The infinite and the infinitesimal were all parts of his canvas, and past, present, and future, the interplanetary and the extra-dimensional, all made their initial impact on the reading public through his many stories and novels.
Here's a quick checklist of recent releases of
ACE SCIENCE-FICTION BOOKS
D-449 THE GENETIC GENERAL by Gordon R. Dickson
and TIME TO TELEPORT by Gordon R. Dickson
D-453 THE GAMES OF NEITH by Margaret St. Clair
and THE EARTH GODS ARE COMING
by Kenneth Bulmer
D-455 THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE-FICTION
Fourth Series, edited by Anthony Boucher.
D-457 VULCAN'S HAMMER by Philip K. Dick
and THE SKYNAPPERS by John Brunner
D-461 THE TIME TRADERS by Andre Norton
D-465 THE MARTIAN MISSILE by David Grinnell
and THE ATLANTIC ABOMINATION
by John Brunner
D-468 SENTINELS OF SPACE by Eric Frank Russell
D-471 SANCTUARY IN THE SKY by John Brunner
and THE SECRET MARTIANS by Jack Sharkey
D-473 THE GREATEST ADVENTURE by John Taine
D-479 TO THE TOMBAUGH STATION by Wilson Tucker
and EARTHMAN GO HOME by Poul Anderson
D-482 THE WEAPON SHOPS OF ISHER
by A. E. Van Vogt
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