Tama of the Light Country by Ray Cummings is a novel written in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mode with an Earthman who goes to Mercury where women have wings. Since Mercury has less gravity, the winged human idea isn’t as silly as you might think. Cummings is one of the first to use the idea of Mercury having a habitable belt between the hot and cold regions. Guy Palisse had “invented a space rocket and attempted to reach the Moon. The entire endeavor was acknowledged to be a suicidal voyage; he had provided no way of returning…. I still remembered my boyish interest in this Guy Palisse Moonrocket. It had successfully left the Earth, but never was heard of again.”
Appearance List Tama of the Light Country in Argosy (December 13-27, 1930), “Tama, Princess of Mercury” in Argosy (June 27-July 18, 1931), “Aerita of the Light Country” in Super Science Novels Magazine (August 1941)
Description Tama of the Light Country by Ray Cummings is a novel written in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mode with an Earthman who goes to Mercury where women have wings. Since Mercury has less gravity, the winged human idea isn’t as silly as you might think. Cummings is one of the first to use the idea of Mercury having a habitable belt between the hot and cold regions. Guy Palisse had “invented a space rocket and attempted to reach the Moon. The entire endeavor was acknowledged to be a suicidal voyage; he had provided no way of returning…. I still remembered my boyish interest in this Guy Palisse Moonrocket. It had successfully left the Earth, but never was heard of again.”
