Aerita of the Light Country
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Raymond King Cummings. Aerita of the Light Country
Aerita of the Light Country
Table of Contents
By Ray Cummings
Complete Book-Length Novel. SUPER SCIENCE NOVELS MAGAZINE. VOL. 3, NO. 1. AUGUST, 1941
CHAPTER ONE
Girl With Wings
CHAPTER TWO
Departure From Earth
CHAPTER THREE
The Attack on the Palace
CHAPTER FOUR
From the Crimson Storm
CHAPTER FIVE
The Flight on the Flying Platform
CHAPTER SIX
Raiders from Space
CHAPTER SEVEN
Lost in the Copper Desert
CHAPTER EIGHT
Monster of the Fire Storm
CHAPTER NINE
The Battle in the Copper Desert
THE END
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Raymond King Cummings
Published by Good Press, 2021
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A fake? Her draped gaze-robe had fallen away a little at the back of her shoulders where the wings seemed to join her body. Grant thought that he would see the weaving muscles there, pink-white where the feathers ended at the base of the wings. Weightless little thing now. Only the toe-tips of one bare foot touched the floor. It was as though in another second she would have risen into the air. Then she dropped her wings, came flat-footed to the floor; and with a little bow, turned and ran behind the side curtain ...
A ripple of awed applause floated out from the audience. At the front edge of the platform-dais, Grant stood silent, numbed by his pounding emotions ... Aerita. Like a premonition it seemed to him then as though, having seen this strange girl, he had glimpsed something of a destiny which was his. A destiny of—what? Love? Terror? There had been terror in her eyes, unmistakable ...
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