Ray Cummings

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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING GULLIVER His name is just the Chemist. He has discovered new worlds -- microscopic worlds. In these Lands Infinitesimal he finds a Love larger than the Universe Somehow, the Chemist told his friends, the Banker, the Big Business Man, the Very Young Man, the Doctor . . . Somehow he was able to peer into subatomic worlds within his mother's wedding ring through a special microscope. There he found a beautiful woman named Lylda, full of mystery and promise. He must find this woman again He invents pills to make him smaller and pills to make him larger. But this otherworldly place -- at first a seeming Utopia -- is full of alien strife and civil war. The Chemist does not return Can his friends use his pills to shrink themselves and find him -- and save him and his love?

A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world. Having worked for Thomas Alva Edison, Ray Cummings (1887–1957) was inspired by science's possibilities and began to write science fiction. The Girl in the Golden Atom was enormously successful at its publication in 1923, and Cummings went on to write an equally successful sequel, The People of the Golden Atom. Both volumes are featured in this Bison Books edition, along with a new introduction by Jack Williamson.

In the Murderer's Brain collects Ray Cummings' most ingenious Scientific Club cases, where crimes are unraveled not by chance but by carefully staged experiments. Doctor Adams, Dr. Gregg, Detective Marberry and their circle of specialists treat criminal minds like laboratories: they reconstruct scenes with props and photographs, probe memory with deceptive readings and object arrays, analyze typewriter idiosyncrasies, read clues etched into ashes, and even stage controlled s ances and pharmacological tests to separate truth from bluff. The club's methods are theatrical and precise-a faux crime scene here, a hypnotic suggestion there-yet always designed to exploit one constant: guilt leaves traces the conscious mind cannot hide. These tales range from heartbreaking mistakes of youth and fatal jealousies to cunning blackmail and calculating murder. In one case, a guilty memory betrays itself when a suspect confuses details after a planted narrative; in another, a burned scrap of paper reveals the name the arsonist thought destroyed; elsewhere, an apparently accidental drowning is solved by careful physics and weight displacement. Beyond the puzzles lie humane meditations on fear, remorse, and how ordinary people fail under extraordinary temptation. Witty, suspenseful, and rigorously plotted, In the Murderer's Brain is classic detective fiction for readers who love forensic cleverness and moral complexity.

This sixty-day journey through John provides a bite-size approach to Scripture in the hopes that you will carefully God’s Word to your everyday life. Jesus practiced this same approach of smaller teaching segments with His first disciples. His longest sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, can be read in less than twelve minutes. Peter’s sermon at Pentecost was less than three minutes long, and 3,000 souls were saved! So, a lot can happen in a short amount of time when the time is set apart by God and for God. This book was written for men to spend sixty days walking through the Gospel of John in order to kickstart our spiritual maturity and make us more like Jesus. Each day is divided into explanation, application, and prayer. The explanation section is short, relational, and inspirational. The application section is brief, making it doable and sustainable. The prayer section is designed to jumpstart your dialogue with God for the day.