The Golden Man

Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, this short story by Philip K. Dick takes us where the powers of earth had finally exterminated the last of the horrible tribes of mutant freaks spawned by atomic war. Menace to homo sapien supremacy was about ended - but not quite. For out of the countryside, came a great golden, godlike youth whose extraordinary mutant powers, combining the world's oldest and newest methods of survival, promised a new and superior type of mankind.

Public Domain (P)2015 Mike Vendetti

Classic Sci Fi

This short story is written in the classic “drop you in the middle” technique of Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov – you get what you need as you go. And when the future is obvious, he stops the telling. I was disappointed only because the Next movie’s derivation, making the Golden Man look human with a camouflage of normality and making him fully articulate, makes him relatable. Whereas the original is merely an accident of atomic war – a bleak future projection from the nineteen fifties. I gave it 4 stars because I think it’s a Mt. Fuji experience. One must climb it, but only once.

Boring

a bit boring 😴. i had to listen to key points to connect the movie Next.