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| short stories by philip k. dick | |
| 1955 short stories | |
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The plot concerns an old man who appears to have travelled back in time from a future in which Earth has lost a devasting war to its own Martian and Venusian colonies. The man turns out to be a synthetic human, designed to trick the Earth people into believing the could never win the war, forcing them to make peace. The android of the story is a forerunner of the kind (named Replicant in the film Blade Runner ) that appears in Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? This story shows how pent up racial tension is a dangerous tool. And as always with Dick, not everything is what it seems to be. |
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