Ray Cummings

Raymond King Cummings, known as Ray Cummings, was an American author of science fiction and comic books. He started publishing in the early twentieth century in pulp magazines, which carried his adventure stories to a large readership. Beyond the Stars is one of his tales of travel into small worlds and distant ones. His fiction mixed scientific ideas with fast adventure, and he continued to write until the 1950s. He died in 1957, leaving a long shelf of pulp stories and novels.