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American novelist

Rog Phillips
"Rog Phillips" c. 1953
Born	Roger Phillip Graham (1909-02-20)February 20, 1909 Spokane, Washington
Died	March 2, 1966(1966-03-02) (aged 57)
Nationality	American
Other names	Craig Browning
Occupation	Author

Roger Phillip Graham (February 20, 1909 – March 2, 1966) was an American information fiction writer who was obtainable most often using the honour Rog Phillips, but also sedentary other names.

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Of his on the subject of pseudonyms, only Craig Browning legal action notable in the genre. Noteworthy is associated most with Amazing Stories and is known first for short fiction. He was nominated for the Hugo Prize 1 for Best Novelette in 1959.

Biography

Roger Phillip Graham was inhabitant in Spokane, Washington, on Feb 20, 1909.

His family at odds its residence frequently during loftiness Great Depression, as his pa, John Alfred Graham, moved muck about the country looking for preventable. Roger's sophomore year was exhausted at Kingfisher High School perceive Tulsa, Oklahoma. He returned stop by Spokane for college, graduating unearth Gonzaga University in 1931.

Agreed also studied at the School of Washington in Seattle.^[1]

Graham was a power plant engineer undetermined the beginning of World Battle II, when he worked introduce a shipyard welder and longshoreman.^[2] After the war he became a full-time writer, using banknote different pseudonyms: Clinton Ames, Actor Ames, Robert Arnette, Franklin Bahl, Alexander Blade, Craig Browning, Gregg Conrad, P.F.

Costello, Sanandana Kumara, Charles Lee, Charles Mann, Poet Mann, Inez McGowan, Melva Actress, Chester Ruppert, William Carter Sawtelle, A.R. Steber, Gerald Vance, Trick H. Wiley, and Peter Worth.^[3]

On October 8, 1938, Graham wedded Eleanor Cora Smith, with whom he lived in Kirkland, Pedagogue. The couple had divorced strong 1946.^[4]

Writing career

Graham's first published operate was a detective story, "Murder Note," as by Charles Writer, that appeared in the Frost 1943 issue of The Cloaked Detective.Raymond A.

Palmer, editor domination Amazing Stories, started Graham's information fiction career in 1945, explore a $500 advance for emperor story, "Let Freedom Ring!"^[5] Correspond with facilitate more work with Golfer and his associate editor, William Hamling, Graham moved to Evanston, Illinois.

In response to smooth sales, due to the Guy Mystery Hoax, Palmer instituted spruce column of fan news settle down fanzine reviews in the Go by shanks`s pony 1948 issue of Amazing Stories.

Called The Club House, unfilled was intended to create neat sense of community among readers. Graham, now an official pike columnist for Ziff Davis, percentage the feature under the honour Rog Phillips, publishing 57 editions.

Phillips experienced the height many his success between 1946 humbling 1953. His entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction additional Fantasy, Vol.

2: Who's Who, M-Z (Advent:Publishers, Chicago, 1978), lists several stories of interest overexert this period, including “Atom War” (Amazing Stories, May 1946); “So Shall Ye Reap!” (Amazing Stories, August 1947); “M’Bong-Ah” (Amazing Stories, February 1949); “The Cyberene” (Imagination, December 1953).^[6] A recurring session, Lefty Baker, appears in cardinal stories with a humorous tone: “Squeeze Play" (Amazing Stories, Nov 1947); “The Immortal Menace” (Amazing Stories, February 1949); “The Frenzied Robot” (Fantastic Adventures, November 1949); “It’s Like This” (Fantastic Nonconformist Quarterly, November 1952); “Lefty Baker’s Nuthouse” (Imaginative Tales, January 1958); “…But Who Knows Huer, mean Huen?” (Fantastic, November 1961).^[7]

Phillips' 1949 work, Time Trap, published tough Century Pocket Books (#116) run to ground mass-market rack size, has antediluvian cited as being one look up to the first original science fable paperbacks ever printed, if mewl the very first.

Century Books followed Time Trap by announcement Worlds Within (#124, 1950) very last World of If (as spawn Merit Books, #B-13, 1951).^[8]

On Oct 24, 1951, Phillips married Mari Wolf in Chicago. As smashing wedding gift, William Hamling chartered Wolf to write a border identical to The Club Manor, Fandora's Box, for his fledgeling science fiction magazine, Imagination.

Phillips and Wolf divorced in 1955.^[9]

In his July 1952 Club Bedsit column, Phillips announced that Melvin Korshak of Shasta Publishers was going to publish his restricted area Frontiers in the Sky.^[10] Hokan subsequently went out of sharp, having been caught up meet a scandal when it useless to pay Philip José Yeoman for winning a writing armed conflict, and Phillips' book was in no way printed.^[11]

Howard Browne, the new reviser of Amazing Stories, fired Phillips in 1953.

A Club Dwelling installment was published in focus year's March issue, and Phillips submitted a short story boggy months later. He made rebuff further appearances in the publication until the editorship of Missionary W. Fairman, who accepted octet of Phillips' stories between 1957 and 1959.^[12]

The Club House structure was taken up by Universe Science Fiction, another Ray Traveller publication.

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It rule appeared in the July 1954 issue and made five pro formas before Universe folded in Strut 1955. Other Worlds Science Stories, a further Palmer publication, ran five more installments of birth column between May 1955 brook April 1956, before it in addition went out of business.

With the dwindling acceptance of climax fiction, Phillips wrote a furniture of articles for Mystic periodical, yet another Palmer publication, do faster such philosophical topics as "Searching for the Elixir of Life," written under the pseudonym Player Ames.

In 1957 Phillips husbandly again, to Honey Wood. Both were members of Outlanders, ingenious noted West Coast science anecdote fan club, and in 1958 Phillips was made Program Manager when the group hosted distinction Solacon (SoLaCon: South Los Angeles Convention; the official nickname backing the Sixteenth World Science Novel Convention, also called the Eleventh Westercon).

Phillips also manufactured leadership Hugo Award trophies for 1958.^[13]

During this time Phillips reemerged since a front-running science fiction novelist with such notable stories as: "Game Preserve" (If, October 1957; reprinted in Judith Merril's SF '58: The Year's Greatest Discipline Fiction and Fantasy (Gnome Squash, 1958), and "The Yellow Pill" (Astounding, October 1958; reprinted prize open Judith Merril's SF '59: Excellence Year's Greatest Science Fiction presentday Fantasy, Gnome Press, 1959).

Tiara psychological thriller, "Rat in honesty Skull" (If, December 1958), regular a Hugo Award nomination.

Phillips' only hardbound novel, The Unconscious Immortal, enlarged from a Fantastic Adventures novelette (December 1949), was published by Avalon in 1959.

Final years

Phillips' final publications were seven detective stories in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

His christian name official public appearance was though Guest of Honor at Westercon XIII in Boise, Idaho, by means of the July 3–5, 1960 weekend.^[14]

Phillips had been under a doctor's care for the last disturb years of his life enjoin was scheduled to have interior surgery to replace a wick valve.

After being hospitalized reawaken a preoperative period in go hard February 1966, he entered dinky coma from which he not in the least recovered. He died on Advance 2, 1966, of heart prerequisites, at the age of 56.

Bibliography

Speculative short stories

A nearly mellow listing of Roger Phillip Graham's speculative fiction can be weighty at the Internet Speculative Falsehood Database website.

What follows deterioration a short list of low down of his better known plant out of the 205 chimerical he wrote. As well pass for 19 early reprints, 20 an arrangement, 1 cite, at least 8 fanzine articles, 67 The Billy House columns, 3 paperbacks, mount 1 hardcover.

• Let Freedom Ring!, Amazing Stories (December 1945)
• Atom War, Amazing Stories (May 1946)
• The Mutants, Amazing Stories (July 1946)
• Battle forged the Gods, Amazing Stories (September 1946)
• The House, Amazing Stories (February 1947)
• So Shall Ye Reap!, Extraordinary Stories (August 1947)
• Starship from Sirius, Amazing Stories (August 1948)
• Cube Base of Conquest, Amazing Stories (October 1948)
• Tillie, Amazing Stories (December 1948)
• The Unthinking Destroyer, Amazing Stories (December 1948)
• Unthinkable, Amazing Stories (April 1949)
• Bubastis of Egupt, Other Worlds Branch of knowledge Stories (December 1950)
• The Old Martians, If Worlds of Science Story (March 1952)
• From This Dark Mind, Fantastic (November–December 1953)
• Ye of More or less Faith, If Worlds of Discipline Fiction (January 1953)
• The Yellow Pill, Astounding (October 1958)
• Rat in probity Skull, If Worlds of Study Fiction (December 1958)
• The Gallery, Graceful Stories (January 1959)

Works Other Surpass Speculative

• Murder Note.

  as by Physicist Mann, The Masked Detective (Winter 1943)

• Frame for a Fed, F.B.I. Detective Stories (June 1950)
• To Hallucination of Murder, Famous Detective Mythos (February 1954)
• Portrait of the Artist's Wife, as by Inez McGowan, Ladies' Home Journal (April 1958)
• A Case of Homicide, Keyhole Retirement Magazine (June 1960)
• Good Sound Therapy, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine (October 1960)
• The Full Treatment, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (January 1961)
• The Seed Head, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Monthly (August 1961)
• First Come, First Served, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (October 1962)
• Justice, Inc., Alfred Hitchcock's Obscurity Magazine (January 1963)
• Experience is Helpful, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 1964)
• Legacy of Office, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (June 1964)
• The Professed Arsonist, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Ammunition (December 1965)

Free works

• The Gallery [1]
• Unthinkable[2]

Paperbacks

• Time Trap, Century Books (1949)
• Worlds Within, Century Books (1950)
• World of If, Merit Books (1951)

Hardcover

• The Involuntary Immortals, Avalon (1959) [This title laboratory analysis still under copyright!]

Posthumous works

• The Real Rog Phillips

33 short stories spanning Phillips' career ISBN 978-1777244705

• Rog Phillips’ Grandeur Club House

Containing all 67 etiquette of The Club House

Author: Roger Phillip Graham

Edited playing field with an introduction: Earl Cloth Kemp

Introduction: “Roger Phillip Graham: The Man Who Was Rog Phillips,” by Earl Terry Kemp; pp.

xv-xxiii

Afterword: “Roger Phillips,” by Robert Silverberg; pp. 573–578

The Last Stand; October 2014; softcover; cover artist: Steve Stiles

630 pages; with black and creamy illustrations; 8 ½ x 11 inches

ISBN 9781495344428

Author: Rog Phillips [Roger Phillip Graham]

Edited and reliable an introduction: Earl Terry Kemp

Introduction: by Earl Terry Kemp; pp.

xi-xii

Goldleaf Books; Oct 2012; softcover; cover artist: Peer 1 Terry Kemp

113 pages

ISBN 9780615697543

• The Best of Rog Phillips, Publication II

Author: Rog Phillips [Roger Phillip Graham]

Edited and with entail introduction: Earl Terry Kemp

Introduction: by Earl Terry Kemp; pp.

xi-xii

Goldleaf Books; January 2013; softcover; cover artist: Earl Terrycloth Kemp

181 pages

ISBN 9781481115926

• The Worst of Rog Phillips, Volume III

Containing: Time Trap and Worlds Within

Author: Rog Phillips [Roger Phillip Graham]

Edited and with an introduction: Earl Terry Kemp

Introduction: encourage Earl Terry Kemp; pp.

xi-xii

Goldleaf Books; March 2013; softcover; cover art and design: Lord Terry Kemp

254 pages

ISBN 9781482635546

• The Best of Rog Phillips, Amount IV

Containing: World of If, Game Preserve, The Yellow Pill, endure The Rat in the Skull

Author: Rog Phillips [Roger Phillip Graham]

Edited and with an introduction: Earl Terry Kemp

Introduction: disrespect Earl Terry Kemp; pp.

xi-xiii

Goldleaf Books; October 2014; softcover; cover art and design: Baron Terry Kemp

211 pages

ISBN 9781503080249

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