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. “I shall never forget my first meeting with Tama. Like all Mercutian women she is winged with those sleek feathered wings… A Joan of Arc? A warrior? Yes, I have already seen her as that. And destined to be a martyr? I pray God it may not be so.”
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. “I shall never forget my first meeting with Tama. Like all Mercutian women she is winged with those sleek feathered wings… A Joan of Arc? A warrior? Yes, I have already seen her as that. And destined to be a martyr? I pray God it may not be so.”
