Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.

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7 Quotations from Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.

hell planet n. 1940 F. A. Kummer, Jr. Star Pirate in Planet Stories Summer 76/2 I’ve thought of you a great deal these eleven years! In the radium fields of that hell-planet Mercury, hunting gold in the stinking Venusian jungles, prospecting the dusty, choking deserts of Mars!
sailship n. [1950 D. Wylie & F. A. Kummer When Time Went Mad in Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. 24/2 One moment I was over old New York, aiming toward the updrafts in Wall Street Valley…. But there's a town to the west.…. I’d never seen a town like that and I’ve flown all around New York and beyond in my sail-ship.]
spacehand n. 1938 F. A. Kummer Forgiveness of Tenchu Taen in Astounding Science-Fiction Nov. 120/1 Here in the Olech, squat Jovian spacehands rub shoulders with languid Venusian traders; dark Mercurians drink with the dak-men of Neptune; and tall Terrestrials swagger contemptuously through the crowds of ‘reddies,’ copper-skinned sons of Mars. Above the babel of a hundred polyglot tongues one can hear the sibilant hissing of the Martian dialects. Like flitting shadows the little reddies, clad in their long, loose dust-robes, glide along the crooked streets, mysterious, inscrutable.
terrestial n. 1942 F. Kummer Pied Piper of Mars in Planet Stories Spring 88/1 Before the night is out, all terrestials on Mars will be imprisoned or dead.
terrestial adj. 1938 F. A. Kummer Exterminators in Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug. 50/1 Gasping, Sheridan recognized Dr. Ernst Flane, the noted terrestial physicist who had gone into voluntary exile on Jupiter with a small group of assistants, in order to study the cosmic rays.
terrestial adj. 1942 F. Kummer Pied Piper of Mars in Planet Stories Spring 82/2 Even Terrestial Intelligence headquarters in New York hadn’t known why a T. I. man was wanted on Mars…but Haller was one of the few persons sufficiently important to have an operator sent without explanation as to why he was wanted.
terrestial adj. 1942 F. Kummer Pied Piper of Mars in Planet Stories Spring 90/2 Already they were starting their reign of terror; when he reached his climax they would pour from their houses to kill all who had terrestial blood.