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INTRODUCTION

"Rog Phillips" is the form of his byline used by Roger Phillips Graham for all his
pulp magazine fiction. An important and well-regarded science fiction author during
the 1940s-50s, Phillips' popularity was confirmed when he was nominated for the
coveted Hugo Award for his 1958 novelette, "Rat in the Skull." Sadly, despite
penning over one hundred short stories and novels, including the humorous "Lefty
Baker" series, and the first "fanzine" review column to appear in a professional
publication, "The Club House," from 1948-1954, Rog Phillips has become almost
forgotten today.
A graduate of Spokane's Gonzaga University, Phillips worked as a power plant
engineer until World War II, when he became a welder in a naval shipyard. After the
war, his interest in science fiction brought him to Palmer's attention, and the "Rog
Phillips" byline began to appear regularly in Palmer's lurid, high-circulation pulp,
Amazing Stories , as well as other publications of the era. For a time, he was married
to science fiction authoress Mari Wolf, who he met through Palmer and who wrote a
rival column of fanzine reviews, "Fandora's Box," for William Hamling'sImagination
.
Rog Phillips' most note-worthy works include the novelThe Involuntary Immortals,
whichAnalog hailed as "A fast-moving chase melodrama тАж Pure entertainmentтАж",
plusSo Shall Ye Reap, Time Trap, These Are My Children , andWorlds Within ;
along with such inimitable short stories as his poignant Hugo nominee, "Rat in the
Skull," "The Yellow Pill," "The Holes in My Head," "Unto the Nth Generation,"
"Pariah," "Love Me, Love MyтАУ," and "Executioner No. 43." (All of these stories can
be found in our new, first-ever collection of Rog Phillips' short stories,The Rat in
the Skull & Other Off-Trail Science Fiction тАУ also available from Page-Turner
E-Books.) As science fiction historian Forrest J. Ackerman says, "Science fiction
readers who have never been exposed to Roger Phillips Graham's inimitable brand
of prose are in for a real treat."


Jean Marie Stine
9/23/02


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CHAPTER I

Helen Ranston smiled sadly to herself, while she sat waiting for her husband to die.
When I met him, he was alive and young, she thought. He was twenty-five, and now
he looks every day of his true age тАУ sixty-seven тАУ while I am still the same, the