Giant Figure Looms Over City, Science Fiction Quarterly Winter 1941
Published in the Winter 1941-42 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly, this cover arrives at the height of pulp sci-fi's golden age, when Ray Cummings was a beloved veteran of fourth-dimension adventure fiction. A towering green-bronze giant kneels over a gleaming art deco cityscape — possibly New York — reaching down with one hand while clutching a bizarre alien object aloft, all set against a blazing orange sky filled with translucent spheres. The image perfectly encapsulates pulp's love of scale-defying spectacle.
A glowing bronze giant straddling an entire metropolis while brandishing a weird alien scepter against a molten-orange sky packed with floating orbs — this is peak pulp gigantism. The sheer audacity of scale and the lurid color palette push this deep into glorious excess.
“NO. 5 WINTER ISSUE Science Fiction QUARTERLY 25¢ INTO THE FOURTH DIMENSION A DIFFERENT BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL by RAY CUMMINGS also S. D. GOTTESMAN LEE GREGOR HUGH RAYMOND”
