Project Gutenberg 2010-06-06 Public domain in the USA. 76 Phillips, Rog 1909 1965 Graham, Roger Phillips Browning, Craig Cube Root of Conquest Reading ease score: 73.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "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.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32712/32712-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 60118 60125 2024-10-14T04:24:45.150481 2023-09-14T09:15:08.330688 text/html text/html 56710 2010-06-06T12:55:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 160221 2010-06-06T12:55:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 169657 2024-10-14T04:24:47.217465 application/epub+zip 168509 2024-10-14T04:24:45.673475 application/epub+zip 79936 2024-10-14T04:24:45.409469 application/epub+zip 206649 2024-10-14T04:24:48.556451 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 199359 2024-10-14T04:24:46.953464 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 111197 2022-09-15T05:58:40.543550 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 52240 52145 2024-10-14T04:24:45.000473 2023-09-14T09:15:08.197667 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 52080 2010-06-06T12:55:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19908 2010-06-06T12:55:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20004 2024-10-14T04:24:48.681450 application/rdf+xml 36470 2024-10-14T04:24:45.473438 image/jpeg 5845 2024-10-14T04:24:45.441478 image/jpeg 160907 2024-10-14T04:24:45.164444 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia