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Bob M Comments: Goodness! It would appear I am being ogled… by a giant, no less! How very splendid.
Published 1950
(Average: 6.23 out of 10)
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Bob M Comments: Goodness! It would appear I am being ogled… by a giant, no less! How very splendid.
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May 16th, 2016 at 10:35 am
“Fools! They said I was too old to play with dolls! I mean, action figures.”
May 16th, 2016 at 11:18 am
Joke’s on him, she’s so thoroughly irradiated she’s luminescent.
May 16th, 2016 at 11:49 am
Something is very, very wrong if he’s leering, she’s glowing, and the author’s name was Ray Cummings.
May 16th, 2016 at 1:04 pm
If ‘Terror of the Autons’ were written by Talbot Rothwell, it might look something like this (complete with Pertwee-era CSO halo!)
May 16th, 2016 at 1:43 pm
A tiny beautiful blond caucasian woman can mean only one thing…..METAL MOTHRA!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=broPmKFqmpI
May 16th, 2016 at 1:55 pm
I misread the second line at the top as “atomic beauty secrets”, which was tried around the turn of the last century.
May 16th, 2016 at 2:15 pm
@IG: that would explain the very unhealthy-looking bit of poo under the microscope in the background. ^^;
May 16th, 2016 at 3:24 pm
@Perry Armstrong: The Talbot Rothwell-style ‘Terror of the Autons’ was ‘Carry On At Your Convenience’. It even had the coach-trip. Kenneth Williams as Farrell Senior and Richard O’Callaghan as Rex – which makes Charles Hawtrey the Master.
May 16th, 2016 at 3:36 pm
The plot is our old friend ‘there is no such thing as a smallest particle, it’s turtles all the way down and atoms look like mini solar systems so they have mini people on the particles.’. Cummings worked with Edison so obviously quantum theory was a bit beyond him. The artist, however, needs a few pointers on how small an atom is compared to a microscope or a letch.
May 16th, 2016 at 3:50 pm
I’m going to assume the necklace is holding her dress up so she doesn’t suffer a wardrobe malfunction. Also, she clearly doesn’t know she’s being ogled by a giant – she’s much too calm for that. Unless she enjoys that kind of attention.
May 16th, 2016 at 4:51 pm
Yes, the décolletage is quite appealing, but she’s got man hands!
Another effect of too much radiation being splashed about during the 50s?
May 16th, 2016 at 6:35 pm
Lily Tomlin: got a friend for you.
May 16th, 2016 at 7:11 pm
Does anyone really think there is an “INCOMPLETE AND ABRIDGED” version of this book?
May 16th, 2016 at 7:35 pm
@B. Chiclitz: your wish is my command. Here’s the 1922 trial-run, ‘Girl of the Golden Atom’. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/21094/pg21094.txt
May 16th, 2016 at 9:26 pm
@BC:
“Hey Golden!” shouted a voice. I looked up. It was…. Draco Malfoy!
“What’s up Draco?” I asked.
“Nothing.” he said shyly.
But then, I heard my friends call me and I had to go away.
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AN: IS it good? PLZ tell me fangz!
May 16th, 2016 at 9:27 pm
Note to anyone who says the books on this site are criticized unfairly: This is an actual sentence from the edition Tat W. directed me toward. If this sentence can get published, anything one wants to say is within bounds of propriety.
“Gosh,” said the Very Young Man, and lighted another cigarette.
Excerpt From: Ray Cummings. “The Girl in the Golden Atom.” iBooks.
Lighted!
May 17th, 2016 at 12:05 am
@BC: the sentence illustrated.
May 17th, 2016 at 12:18 am
“And then I saw Dianne. The glory of her beauty swept me. She ran up and kissed me.
‘Frank, dear–‘
I do not know what I was to her then. But to me, this was not my sister. A thousand times more strongly now, I felt it. And no princess this. Just a girl!”
Actual excerpt from page 62 of The Princess of the Atom.
There’s sort of a reverse-Luke-and-Leia thing going on with the protagonist and the princess. They’re raised to believe they’re biologically brother and sister. While they’re still children she disappears, and when they meet again years later, he, only having recently been informed of the truth, seems to immediately fall for her. They get married at the end.
May 17th, 2016 at 4:03 am
@Bob M. – Oh, you didn’t say Spoilers! first.
I think Her Royal Highness Princess Atom is so nonchalant because she just likes to freak out scientists with her size and golden glow. And she IS made of atoms, I assume. If not, I’m even more interested.
May 17th, 2016 at 4:09 am
@DSWBT—no wonder he lighted another one.
May 17th, 2016 at 4:11 am
@Bob M—feels like it’s about to morph immediately into a Victorian porno novel—maybe I should have read past page one.
May 17th, 2016 at 5:01 am
@B. Chiclitz: It has many themes in common with the earlier Girl in the Golden Atom, but it’s generally a different story, as I recall. And a weaker one. A later novel he wrote called “Beyond the Stars” used the atom universe idea once again. I haven’t even been able to bring myself to read past the first few pages on that one. I’m seeing a pattern…
May 17th, 2016 at 1:37 pm
She must be Xenon, Warrior Princess.
A Noble Lass.
May 17th, 2016 at 3:35 pm
@B’Mancer—
A glowing, hot Princess named Xenon
Was a slightly ambiguous phenom
Though quite Noble a lass
She suffered from gas
And so made it dangerous to lean on
May 17th, 2016 at 3:46 pm
@B.C. – Excellent 🙂
May 21st, 2016 at 10:35 pm
“Good God!” ejaculated the Banker, as the white-faced men stared at each other.
…
“Great Caesar!” ejaculated the Banker. “Don’t let’s go into that any deeper!”
…
“Great Scott, this is a tornado!” ejaculated the Big Business Man. His words were almost lost amid the howling of the blast as it swept across the barren waste of rocks.
…
“Well, I’ll be——” ejaculated the Very Young Man. “What next?”
…
“Now what?” ejaculated the Very Young Man, standing up abruptly, with his feet spread wide apart.
…
“Oh,” ejaculated the Big Business Man, comprehending at last, “so that’s the——”
The Very Young Man standing with his back to the wall and his legs spread wide looked hastily at his watch. “Moving the ring? Why, damn it——” he began impetuously.
…
“A curious land, gentlemen,” he remarked quietly.
“It’s—it’s weird,” the Very Young Man ejaculated.
…
The Very Young Man looked about in dismay. “Great Scott,” he ejaculated, “this won’t do at all.”
…
If I didn’t have the Glenlivet in front of me already, I’d say I need a freaking drink. 😉
May 21st, 2016 at 10:52 pm
Er, @HBw: SPOILERS!
May 23rd, 2016 at 8:23 am
Woman in secret frolic — beauty’s desperate struggle to eat meat sword
THE CUMMINGS OF THE PRINCESS
Ray Atom
Go de-pant! Mace unbridled!
May 23rd, 2016 at 4:08 pm
@DSWBT # 26—Great Scott indeed, Sir. I am ejaculating on the edge of my seat as I indulge in gripping your narrative, I mean, your gripping narrative. I can only imagine how much even greater would be the complete and unabridged version.
May 23rd, 2016 at 5:31 pm
@BC: I was gay while I was writing the thing, yes. To my surprise and dismay, though, there were only two instances of erections. Maybe the narrative could have done with more.
May 26th, 2016 at 10:23 am
Nuclear scientists must be very, very lonely.
August 5th, 2017 at 10:27 pm
@BC: bad news, I’ve found an instance of “lighted” in place of “lit” in chapter 3 of Moby-Dick.