WANDL THE INVADER by RAY CUMMINGS Copyright, 1932, by Clayton Publications, Inc.A CLASSIC NOVEL OF INTERPLANETARY WARFAREThere were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was withintheir boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce andbegan trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then theydiscovered a tenth planet--a maverick!This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it washeading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to theEarth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raisingturmoil on the two inhabited worlds.But even so none suspected then just how much trouble this new worldwould make. For it was WANDL THE INVADER and it was no barrenplanetoid. It was a manned world, manned by minds and monsters andtraveling into our system with a purpose beyond that of astronomicalaccident!It's a terrific novel from the classic days of great science-fictionadventure--now first published in book form. When RAY CUMMINGS tookleave of this planet early in 1957, the world of modernscience-fiction lost one of its genuine founding fathers. For theimagination of this talented writer supplied a great many of the mostbasic themes upon which the present superstructure of science-fictionis based. Following the lead of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, Cummingssuccessfully bridged the gap between the early dawning ofscience-fiction in the last decades of the Nineteenth Century and thefull flowering of the field in these middle decades of the Twentieth.Born in 1887, Cummings acquired insight into the vast possibilities offuture science by a personal association with Thomas Alva Edison.During the 1920's and 1930's, he thrilled millions of readers with hisvivid tales of space and time. The infinite and the infinitesimal wereall parts of his canvas, and past, present, and future, theinterplanetary and the extra-dimensional, all made their initialimpact on the reading public through his many stories and novels.