The Shadow Girl
Author: Ray Cummings
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: Science Fiction, Adventure
A mysterious tower appears in the middle of a city, bearing a troubled girl
from the future in search of help from today. One of Cummings' best works, THE
SHADOW GIRL remains thoroughly readable and enjoyable even though it was first
published more than eighty years ago.
"He is a Verne returned and a Wells going forward," remarked "Bob" Davis, dean
of American magazine editors. "He is the American H.G. Wells," say other
critics. Cummings has an unusual flair for things scientific as evidenced by
the fact that while at Princeton University he accomplished the remarkable feat
of absorbing three years of physics in that many months. His five years'
association with Thomas Edison as the latter's personal assistant also added to
Cummings's scientific knowledge. His bizarre early life, living on orange
plantations in Puerto Rico, striking oil in Wyoming, gold seeking in British
Columbia, timber cruising in the North, before he was twenty, also left its
imprint. "Leaving Mr. Edison's employ, Cummings began writing scientific
fiction for many magazines. His stories gripped the popular imagination and
they "clicked." Mr. Cummings's success as a writer has been meteoric, for in a
few years he has become one of the world's most popular authors of scientific
fiction....
--Argosy-Allstory Weekly, Feb. 8, 1930
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