Project Gutenberg 2021-09-10 Public domain in the USA. 113 Phillips, Rog 1909 1965 Graham, Roger Phillips Browning, Craig Terry, W. E. 1921 1992 Terry, Willis E. Terry, Bill The Cosmic Junkman Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy December 1953 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Cosmic Junkman" by Rog Phillips is a science fiction novel written in the early 1950s. The story unfolds in a post-war Earth, where robots have been demobilized and humans have a burgeoning fear of their former mechanical soldiers. The narrative is driven by characters such as Fleet Admiral William A. Ford and Generalissimo Vilbis, as well as a sentient robot named 2615, who grapples with themes of autonomy, fear, and humanity's relationship with artificial intelligence. The opening of the book introduces a tense situation aboard the flagship "Rover", where Admiral Ford keeps a prisoner, Vilbis, a former enemy leader. As they discuss the dangers posed by robots and fears of their potential rebellion due to a lack of human oversight, chaos ensues when an unidentified ship attacks and their fleet is threatened. The narrative then shifts to the cosmic junkman—a character involved in the care and management of decommissioned robots—setting the stage for the central conflict around the rise of intelligent machines and the survival of humanity. The tension mounts as the plot hints at a conspiracy involving alien robots that have plans for Earth's subjugation, while the dynamics between the characters lay groundwork for themes of survival, power, and betrayal in a futuristic setting. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 85.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Adventure stories Robots -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 158745 2025-06-26T08:06:14.004756 text/html 136660 2024-10-18T16:00:51 text/html 506725 2025-06-26T08:06:17.936706 application/epub+zip 508932 2025-06-26T08:06:15.457776 application/epub+zip 189573 2025-06-26T08:06:14.524784 application/epub+zip 494522 2025-06-26T08:06:19.695740 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 485140 2025-06-26T08:06:17.393725 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 241269 2022-09-29T19:32:31.071469 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 149700 2025-06-26T08:06:13.724793 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 129885 2024-10-18T16:00:51 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17547 2025-06-26T08:06:19.817717 application/rdf+xml 24724 2025-06-26T08:06:14.982724 image/jpeg 4071 2025-06-26T08:06:14.752732 image/jpeg 4261286 2025-06-26T08:06:14.049772 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia