02501cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500220014326400510016530000470021633600260026333700260028933800360031549000610035150001130041250000310052550801080055652013120066453400750197665300200205183000610207185600430213277608UtSlPG20260610134810.0mcr n260607r20261928utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCummings, Ray,d1887-195712aA brand new world 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Famous Fantastic Mysteries September 1942.  a"This story appeared originally in The Argosy All-Story Weekly, beginning serialization September 22, 1928."  aRelease date is 2026-01-02  aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net  aA brand new world by Ray Cummings is a science fiction novel written in the early 20th century. It follows the discovery of a new planet, Xenephrene, whose arrival upends Earth’s climate and social order while a young reporter, his astronomer father, an inventor friend, and a Puerto Rican family encounter a white‑haired visitor named Zetta as a hostile invasion looms.

The opening of the novel traces the “new star” from first sightings to its naming as Xenephrene and the dawning realization—led by the narrator’s father—that its gravity is tipping Earth’s axis, plunging the northern hemisphere toward months of darkness and deadly cold. Society reels: New York is snowbound, refugees flee south, and the government relocates to Miami while broadcasters plead for calm. In Puerto Rico, Dan Cain and Hulda discover a silver sphere and a nearly weightless, leaping girl, Zetta, who proves gentle and begins to learn their language. Meanwhile, reports arrive of hostile landings near New York; an inventor’s small heat‑projector is examined, and a reconnaissance flight broadcasts stark tel‑vision images of a frozen, deserted Manhattan and a distant crimson glow accompanied by an eerie, rising whine—the invaders’ advancing weapon. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1928  aScience fiction 0aProduced from Famous Fantastic Mysteries September 1942.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77608