The Tramp

The Tramp Interesting Hubbard fantasy about a tramp, Doughface Jack. Jack is a bum who lives off trains and wanders about looking for the basic necessities of life. However this day, in escaping the law and running from a sheriff, he has an accident. An accident that nearly kills him but thanks to an......more

The Tramp is AUDACIOUS in action and hilarious in effect. A Tramp has a gruesome accident which rips his scalp and skull half off and gets patched up by the local doc in a small town who utilizes a silver dish at hand to replace the top of his pulverized head bone resulting in the outlandish power t......more

A very different fantasy story about a tramp that have the top of his head injured and replaced with a silver bowl and after that becomes able to cure people from any illness, but also able to kill with a glance. The story was more intense than I had expected.......more

Doughface Jake, a hobo riding the rails, wakes up in a little town hospital, where the doctor literally had to sew his brain back together after cracking his skull. The operation not only saves his life, but it also gives him new abilities - the power to heal, or to kill. He’s not sure how to handle......more

The Tramp is a novel by Hubbard that was originally published in the September, October, and November issues of John Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction magazine in serial format and is published together here for the first time. It's interesting that Galaxy Press used the cover of the September i......more