"He is a Verne returned and a Wells going forward," remarked "Bob"
Davis, dean of American magazine editors. "He is the American H.G.
Wells," say other critics. Cummings has an unusual flair for things
scientific as evidenced by the fact that while at Princeton
University he accomplished the remarkable feat of absorbing three
years of physics in that many months. His five years' association
with Thomas Edison as the latter's personal assistant also added to
Cummings's scientific knowledge. His bizarre early life, living on
orange plantations in Puerto Rico, striking oil in Wyoming, gold
seeking in British Columbia, timber cruising in the North, before
he was twenty, also left its imprint.
"Leaving Mr. Edison's employ, Cummings began writing scientific
fiction for many magazines. His stories gripped the popular
imagination and they "clicked." Mr. Cummings's success as a writer
has been meteoric, for in a few years he has become one of the
world's most popular authors of scientific fiction....
--Argosy-Allstory Weekly, Feb. 8, 1930
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