Abstract :
One of my favorite stories in fiction is a short novel describing the experiences of a Mr. Anthony Rogers, the story´s main character. I first read the story when I was in junior high school in roughly 1963 or 1964, and the description given in the following paragraphs struck me then, as now, as imaginative. The scene described by the main character involves two fictional cities: Fis-Ko, which I believe is a corruption of San Francisco, and Lo-Tan (identified only as being in America??s Rocky Mountains). I´ve never determined where Lo-Tan was supposed to be. In this excerpt from the novel, Philip Nowlan wrote: