One Collection & 8 Stories by Rog Phillips
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Overview: Roger Phillips Graham (1909-1965) was an American science fiction writer who most often wrote under the name Rog Phillips, but also used other names. Although of his other pseudonyms only "Craig Browning" is notable in the genre. He is most associated with Amazing Stories and is best known for short fiction. He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1959.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
Rat in the Skull & Other Off-trail Science Fiction (2002) SSC
Rog Phillips’ Rat in the Skull is a giant-helping of classic Golden Age science fiction. Included is Phillips’ science fiction masterpiece, "Rat in the Skull" (unavailable for nearly fifty years). What the magazine editors said then about this controversial, Hugo nominee novelette remains true today: "Some people will be shocked by this story. Others will be deeply moved. Everyone who reads it will be talking about it. Read the first four pages: then put it down if you can." Other Phillips novelettes gathered in Rat in the Skull are: "The Yellow Pill," "Executioner No. 43," "Unto the Nth Generation," "Pariah," "Love Me, Love My-" and "The Holes in My Head." Rat in the Skull & Other Off-Trail Science Fiction is a must-read for those who love science fiction. "Science fiction readers who have never been exposed to Roger Phillips Graham’s inimitable brand of prose are in for a real treat." Forrest Ackerman. Cover design: J. L. "Frankie" Hill
CONTENTS:
Introduction by Jean Marie Stine
Rat in the Skull
Love Me, Love My –
The Yellow Pill
Executioner No. 43
The Holes in My Head
Unto the Nth Generation
Pariah
Cube Root of Conquest (1948)
What actual result is there in the act of conquest? What is its cube root? — These weren’t questions that would have come to Jan. But the man in the hunting blind — great-great-grandson of the folks who’d conquered his country and murdered most of the people — the short, fat creepy man who tried to shoot him — might have told the history. But he was the sad result of his people’s fat and happy culture. And he didn’t have much to say now that he was dead, anyway.
The Gallery (1959)
Aunt Matilda needed him desperately, but when he arrived she did not want him and neither did anyone else in his home town.
The Old Martians (1952)
They opened the ruins to tourists at a dollar a head but they reckoned without The OLD MARTIANS.
The Phantom Truck Driver (1953)
“Hey, Frank! Heard the news? Captain Summers is back! Yeah, same old business: he’s nutty as a pecan orchard. ‘Course who can blame him for goin’ off his rocker? Up front there, sluggin’ it out with them screwball Junies. I never seen one myself, but the stories they, tell about ‘em — brother! New kind of warfare, all right, when your enemy starts lovin’ you to death!
“No, that’s not what drove him batty. In the first place, you gotta understand that Captain Summers is — or at least was, anyway — a mighty level-headed guy. And don’t worry about him havin’ guts; he’s got all any ten men could use. Way I hear it, he came up with some ridiculous idea that’s supposed to explain what them Junies are up to. He’s got it written out, I hear, but I never got a chance to read it…
The Unthinking Destroyer (1948)
Gordon and Harold both admitted the possibility of thinking entities other than human. But would they ever recognize the physical form of some of these beings?
Tillie (1948)
She was just a blob of metal, but she had emotions like any woman. She, too, wanted ROMANCE, and wasn’t coy about running after her "guy".
Unthinkable (1949)
If Nature suddenly began to behave differently, what we consider obvious and elementary today might become—unthinkable.
Ye of Little Faith (1953)
It matters not whether you believe or disbelieve. Reality is not always based on logic; nor, particularly, are the laws of the universe….
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