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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 03, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![The sea girl](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqqzb3eh4rv19dt71xr18hbb/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260920%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260920T042704Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=efe9fd7ffed6f9b8be26f5d8ce9fd8cb53a9fbaa59daeb096a628b19a82ab5c9) ## About this work The sea girl by Ray Cummings, Robert A. 1879-1951 \[Illustrator\] Graef — a public-domain edition published by publica.now. Sample ## Take a look inside The Sea Girl By RAY CUMMINGS Author of “A Brand New World,” “Beyond the Stars,” etc. Sunken ships and strange ocean changes presage the mightiest and most unaccountable threat ever made against mankind’s world. \[Transcriber’s Note: This etext was produced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6, 1929\] “. . . and he lived with her in a Golden Palace at the bottom of the sea . . .” CHAPTER I. HUMAN GIRL, OR SIREN? The first of the mysterious sea disasters occurred in March, 1990. It did not seem important; it was given very little publicity. A small, old-fashioned freight vessel of some thirty thousand tons sank in mid-Pacific with the loss of all on board. The ship, which in its day must have been accounted a luxurious passenger liner, had, years ago, been converted to the freight trade, and its weirdly elaborate superstructure long since dismantled. Bound from San Francisco to the Island ports and Dutch East India with a cargo of manufactured foodstuffs for the eastern island markets, it had sunk unexpectedly, and for no apparent cause, at fifteen N degrees and one hundred and sixty-five degrees E, northwest of the Marshall Group. As it happened, I was among the first to receive the call of distress. My name is Geoffry Grant. I was twenty-two years old, that spring of 1990. They say that ours is the generation of youthful achievement; even so, I think I had done fairly well, for I was chief officer then, second in command of the largest vessel of the Sub-Pacific Freighters. Our line was newly established to supersede the ancient surface vessels whose passengers were nearly all traveling by air. We were in fourteen degrees N and one hundred and sixty-five degrees twenty minutes E, on… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fthe-sea-girl) The sample continues in the full work. 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