Ray Cummings was been viewed as "one of the founding fathers of the pulp science fiction genre". According to Wikipedia, Cummings "worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914-1919...(h)is (writing) career resulted in some 750 novels and short stories ." Although most noted for his science fiction, Cummings was also a popular writer in the detective pulps. During the 1940s, Cummings wote for Timely Comics, contributing stories about Captain America, Submariner, and the Human Torch. 

The Man Who Mastered Time falls into his rather loose Matter, Space and Time series, which postulates that matter, space and time are interlinked and that one cannet exist without the others. (His most famous work in the series was The Girl in the Golden Atom, in which the atoms themselves are individual worlds.) First published in Argosy as a five-part serial beginning in July, 1919, The Man Who Mastered Time suffers somewhat from the writing conventions of that time, but the story still pulses with adventure, romance, and invention. A willingness to suspend disbelief is all that is needed to enjoy this novel.

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