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Title: Cube Root of Conquest
Series Title: Produced from Amazing Stories October 1948.
Credits:
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Cube Root of Conquest" by Rog Phillips is a science fiction novella written in the late 1940s. The book explores themes around conquest, reality, and the multiverse, delving into complex scientific concepts involving time, space, and human ambition. Through a combination of action and philosophical inquiry, it examines the consequences of power and the nature of existence. The story follows Jan, a nimble and instinctive hunter who encounters a strange glowing square that has the ability to make things vanish. This leads to a dramatic confrontation with a grotesque, powerful figure from another world, Generalissimo Hute Hitle, who plans to unleash destruction on a global scale. Through the character of Hute's scientist, Carl Grinch, readers learn of a sophisticated time and space travel mechanism that operates on mathematical theories, including the cube root of conquest. Ultimately, Grinch reveals that Hite's destructive ambitions are futile since they occur in an imaginary universe, illustrating the philosophical idea that true conquest may never be fully realized, only envisioned. The narrative intertwines action with deep conceptual reflections on reality and power dynamics in a universe governed by complex equations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 73.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Phillips, Rog, 1909-1965
EBook No.: 32712
Published: Jun 6, 2010
Downloads: 109
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Cube Root of Conquest
Series Title: Produced from Amazing Stories October 1948.
Credits:
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Summary: "Cube Root of Conquest" by Rog Phillips is a science fiction novella written in the late 1940s. The book explores themes around conquest, reality, and the multiverse, delving into complex scientific concepts involving time, space, and human ambition. Through a combination of action and philosophical inquiry, it examines the consequences of power and the nature of existence. The story follows Jan, a nimble and instinctive hunter who encounters a strange glowing square that has the ability to make things vanish. This leads to a dramatic confrontation with a grotesque, powerful figure from another world, Generalissimo Hute Hitle, who plans to unleash destruction on a global scale. Through the character of Hute's scientist, Carl Grinch, readers learn of a sophisticated time and space travel mechanism that operates on mathematical theories, including the cube root of conquest. Ultimately, Grinch reveals that Hite's destructive ambitions are futile since they occur in an imaginary universe, illustrating the philosophical idea that true conquest may never be fully realized, only envisioned. The narrative intertwines action with deep conceptual reflections on reality and power dynamics in a universe governed by complex equations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 73.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Phillips, Rog, 1909-1965
EBook No.: 32712
Published: Jun 6, 2010
Downloads: 109
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.