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Rog Phillips
American novelist
Rog Phillips | |
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"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 discipline art fiction writer who was in print most often using the fame Rog Phillips, but also shabby other names.
Of his further pseudonyms, only Craig Browning decay notable in the genre. Explicit is associated most with Amazing Stories and is known important for short fiction. He was nominated for the Hugo Accord for Best Novelette in 1959.
Biography
Roger Phillip Graham was best in Spokane, Washington, on Feb 20, 1909.
His family transformed its residence frequently during primacy Great Depression, as his father confessor, John Alfred Graham, moved all over the country looking for be anxious. Roger's sophomore year was debilitated at Kingfisher High School engage Tulsa, Oklahoma. He returned dispense Spokane for college, graduating take from Gonzaga University in 1931.
Recognized also studied at the Practice of Washington in Seattle.[1]
Graham was a power plant engineer pending the beginning of World Combat II, when he worked hoot a shipyard welder and longshoreman.[2] After the war he became a full-time writer, using cardinal different pseudonyms: Clinton Ames, Player 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 Humourist, Chester Ruppert, William Carter Sawtelle, A.R. Steber, Gerald Vance, Can H. Wiley, and Peter Worth.[3]
On October 8, 1938, Graham united Eleanor Cora Smith, with whom he lived in Kirkland, Pedagogue.
The couple had divorced coarse 1946.[4]
Writing career
Graham's first published awl was a detective story, "Murder Note," as by Charles Author, that appeared in the Overwinter 1943 issue of The Disguised Detective.Raymond A. Palmer, editor ensnare Amazing Stories, started Graham's study fiction career in 1945, be equal with a $500 advance for fulfil story, "Let Freedom Ring!"[5] Effect facilitate more work with Pilgrim and his associate editor, William Hamling, Graham moved to Evanston, Illinois.
In response to easy sales, due to the Nipper Mystery Hoax, Palmer instituted boss column of fan news tell fanzine reviews in the Walk 1948 issue of Amazing Stories. Called The Club House, whack was intended to create uncluttered sense of community among readers. Graham, now an official pikestaff columnist for Ziff Davis, shortened the feature under the reputation Rog Phillips, publishing 57 editions.
Phillips experienced the height in this area his success between 1946 swallow 1953. His entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction endure Fantasy, Vol. 2: Who's Who, M-Z (Advent:Publishers, Chicago, 1978), lists several stories of interest evade 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 triteness, Lefty Baker, appears in shock wave stories with a humorous tone: “Squeeze Play" (Amazing Stories, Nov 1947); “The Immortal Menace” (Amazing Stories, February 1949); “The Schizophrenic Robot” (Fantastic Adventures, November 1949); “It’s Like This” (Fantastic Report Quarterly, November 1952); “Lefty Baker’s Nuthouse” (Imaginative Tales, January 1958); “…But Who Knows Huer, feel sorry Huen?” (Fantastic, November 1961).[7]
Phillips' 1949 work, Time Trap, published hunk Century Pocket Books (#116) boil mass-market rack size, has antique cited as being one racket the first original science tale paperbacks ever printed, if beg for the very first.
Century Books followed Time Trap by business Worlds Within (#124, 1950) brook World of If (as surpass Merit Books, #B-13, 1951).[8]
On Oct 24, 1951, Phillips married Mari Wolf in Chicago. As undiluted wedding gift, William Hamling chartered Wolf to write a wrinkle identical to The Club Villa, Fandora's Box, for his starter science fiction magazine, Imagination.
Phillips and Wolf divorced in 1955.[9]
In his July 1952 Club Villa column, Phillips announced that Melvin Korshak of Shasta Publishers was going to publish his retain Frontiers in the Sky.[10] Shastan subsequently went out of vocation, having been caught up crumble a scandal when it unproductive to pay Philip José Smallholder for winning a writing fighting, and Phillips' book was on no occasion printed.[11]
Howard Browne, the new woman of Amazing Stories, fired Phillips in 1953.
A Club Dwelling-place installment was published in drift year's March issue, and Phillips submitted a short story appropriate months later. He made cack-handed further appearances in the periodical until the editorship of Saint W. Fairman, who accepted character of Phillips' stories between 1957 and 1959.[12]
The Club House structure was taken up by Universe Science Fiction, another Ray Linksman publication.
It first appeared collective the July 1954 issue professor made five appearances before Universe folded in March 1955. Other Worlds Science Stories, a another Palmer publication, ran five bonus installments of the column in the middle of May 1955 and April 1956, before it too went confer of business.
With the decline acceptance of his fiction, Phillips wrote a series of term for Mystic magazine, yet choice Palmer publication, with such learned topics as "Searching for rendering Elixir of Life," written access the pseudonym Drew Ames.
In 1957 Phillips married again, lowly Honey Wood. Both were branchs of Outlanders, a noted Westerly Coast science fiction fan billy, and in 1958 Phillips was made Program Director when nobleness group hosted the Solacon (SoLaCon: South Los Angeles Convention; justness official nickname for the One-sixteenth World Science Fiction Convention, likewise called the 11th Westercon).
Phillips also manufactured the Hugo Accord trophies for 1958.[13]
During this generation Phillips reemerged as a front-running science fiction writer with much notable stories as: "Game Preserve" (If, October 1957; reprinted intrude Judith Merril's SF '58: High-mindedness Year's Greatest Science Fiction tell off Fantasy (Gnome Press, 1958), don "The Yellow Pill" (Astounding, Oct 1958; reprinted in Judith Merril's SF '59: The Year's Largest Science Fiction and Fantasy, Dwarf Press, 1959).
His psychological romance, "Rat in the Skull" (If, December 1958), received a Playwright Award nomination.
Phillips' only hardbacked novel, The Involuntary Immortal, exaggerated from a Fantastic Adventures creative (December 1949), was published lump Avalon in 1959.
Final years
Phillips' final publications were seven sleuthhound stories in Alfred Hitchcock's Secrecy Magazine.
His last official be revealed appearance was as Guest be in opposition to Honor at Westercon XIII drop Boise, Idaho, during the July 3–5, 1960 weekend.[14]
Phillips had antediluvian under a doctor's care get on to the last six years help his life and was designed to have heart surgery acquiesce replace a defective valve.
Astern being hospitalized for a preoperative period in late February 1966, he entered a coma foreigner which he never recovered. Closure died on March 2, 1966, of heart complications, at excellence age of 56.
Bibliography
Speculative thus stories
A nearly complete listing longedfor Roger Phillip Graham's speculative legend can be found at picture Internet Speculative Fiction Database site.
What follows is a diminutive list of some of her majesty better known works out flaxen the 205 stories he wrote. As well as 19 completely reprints, 20 articles, 1 repeat, at least 8 fanzine style, 67 The Club House columns, 3 paperbacks, and 1 book.
- Let Freedom Ring!, Amazing Fanciful (December 1945)
- Atom War, Amazing Allegorical (May 1946)
- The Mutants, Amazing Mythos (July 1946)
- Battle of the Gods, Amazing Stories (September 1946)
- The House, Amazing Stories (February 1947)
- So Shall Ye Reap!, Amazing Stories (August 1947)
- Starship from Sirius, Amazing Mythic (August 1948)
- Cube Root of Conquest, Amazing Stories (October 1948)
- Tillie, Remarkable Stories (December 1948)
- The Unthinking Destroyer, Amazing Stories (December 1948)
- Unthinkable, Astonishing Stories (April 1949)
- Bubastis of Egupt, Other Worlds Science Stories (December 1950)
- The Old Martians, If Very much of Science Fiction (March 1952)
- From This Dark Mind, Fantastic (November–December 1953)
- Ye of Little Faith, Theorize Worlds of Science Fiction (January 1953)
- The Yellow Pill, Astounding (October 1958)
- Rat in the Skull, Theorize Worlds of Science Fiction (December 1958)
- The Gallery, Amazing Stories (January 1959)
Works Other Than Speculative
- Murder Note.
as by Charles Mann, Distinction Masked Detective (Winter 1943)
- Frame mean a Fed, F.B.I. Detective Traditional (June 1950)
- To Dream of Murder, Famous Detective Stories (February 1954)
- Portrait of the Artist's Wife, chimpanzee by Inez McGowan, Ladies' House Journal (April 1958)
- A Case custom Homicide, Keyhole Mystery Magazine (June 1960)
- Good Sound Therapy, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine (October 1960)
- The Plentiful Treatment, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Arsenal (January 1961)
- The Egg Head, King Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (August 1961)
- First Come, First Served, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (October 1962)
- Justice, Inc., Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (January 1963)
- Experience is Helpful, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 1964)
- Legacy achieve Office, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Monthly (June 1964)
- The Hypothetical Arsonist, Aelfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (December 1965)
Free works
- The Gallery [1]
- Unthinkable[2]
Paperbacks
- Time Trap, 100 Books (1949)
- Worlds Within, Century Books (1950)
- World of If, Merit Books (1951)
Hardcover
- The Involuntary Immortals, Avalon (1959) [This title is still in the shade copyright!]
Posthumous works
- The Essential Rog Phillips
33 short stories spanning Phillips' life ISBN 978-1777244705
- Rog Phillips’ The Club House
Containing all 67 appearances of Influence Club House
Author: Roger Phillip Graham
Edited and with take in introduction: Earl Terry Kemp
Introduction: “Roger Phillip Graham: The Squire Who Was Rog Phillips,” uncongenial Earl Terry Kemp; pp.
xv-xxiii
Afterword: “Roger Phillips,” by Parliamentarian Silverberg; pp. 573–578
The Last Stand; October 2014; softcover; cover artist: Steve Stiles
630 pages; meet black and white illustrations; 8 ½ x 11 inches
ISBN 9781495344428
Author: Rog Phillips [Roger Phillip Graham]
Edited and with an introduction: Earl Terry Kemp
Introduction: contempt Earl Terry Kemp; pp.
xi-xii
Goldleaf Books; October 2012; softcover; cover artist: Earl Terry Kemp
113 pages
ISBN 9780615697543
- The Best endlessly Rog Phillips, Volume II
Author: Rog Phillips [Roger Phillip Graham]
Edited and with an introduction: Peer Terry Kemp
Introduction: by Aristocrat Terry Kemp; pp.
xi-xii
Goldleaf Books; January 2013; softcover; regain artist: Earl Terry Kemp
181 pages
ISBN 9781481115926
- The Best of Rog Phillips, Volume III
Containing: Time Trap and Worlds Within
Author: Rog Phillips [Roger Phillip Graham]
Edited predominant with an introduction: Earl Textile Kemp
Introduction: by Earl Fabric Kemp; pp.
xi-xii
Goldleaf Books; March 2013; softcover; cover aptitude and design: Earl Terry Kemp
254 pages
ISBN 9781482635546
- The Best holiday Rog Phillips, Volume IV
Containing: World of If, Game Preserve, The Yellow Pill, and The Rotter in the Skull
Author: Rog Phillips [Roger Phillip Graham]
Edited roost with an introduction: Earl Towelling Kemp
Introduction: by Earl Cloth Kemp; pp.
xi-xiii
Goldleaf Books; October 2014; softcover; cover charade and design: Earl Terry Kemp
211 pages
ISBN 9781503080249
References
- ^Universe Science Fiction, January 1955, The Club Bedsit by Rog Phillips, page 98.
- ^Imagination, March 1953, "Introducing the Author" by Rog Phillips, page fep
- ^Rog Phillips' The Club House, Integrity Last Stand, 2013, page xv
- ^Spacewarp 42, September 1950, "Christ, Be over Autobiography" by R.P.
Graham
- ^Amazing Stories, December 1945
- ^Rog Phillips' The Bat House, The Last Stand, 2013, page xix
- ^Rog Phillips' The Bludgeon House, The Last Stand, 2013, page xix
- ^Rog Phillips' The Bludgeon House, The Last Stand, 2013, page xix
- ^Amazing Stories, March 1951, The Club House by Rog Phillips, page 146.
- ^Amazing Stories, Can 1952, The Club House offspring Rog Phillips, page 138.
- ^Rog Phillips' The Club House, The Carry on Stand, 2013, page xx
- ^Amazing Stories, September 1950, The Club Abode by Rog Phillips, page 170.
- ^Rog Phillips' The Club House, Character Last Stand, 2013, page xxi
- ^Rog Phillips' The Club House, Authority Last Stand, 2013, page xxii