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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aCummings, Ray,
_d1887-1957
245 1 2 _aA brand new world
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Famous Fantastic Mysteries September 1942.
500 _a"This story appeared originally in The Argosy All-Story Weekly, beginning serialization September 22, 1928."
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-02
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1928
653 _aScience fiction
830 0 _aProduced from Famous Fantastic Mysteries September 1942.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77608
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