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The Skull
- By: Philip K. Dick
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- Length: 55 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
In "The Skull", a convict is offered his freedom if he agrees to travel back in time and kill someone. He learns that the assassination target was the founder of a religious sect that grew in strength and influence from its inception in 1960. Carrying his target's skull so he can identify the religious leader, the convict comes to learn a terrible secret about why he was chosen to find its owner.
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Mr. Spaceship
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 8
We talk to our cars, and our computers; how about a spaceship which is powered by a human brain. In this short story by Philip K Dick, researchers find the ideal candidate, Kramer's old professor, a dying man who volunteers to donate his brain to the project.
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Date Night on Union Station
- EarthCent Ambassador Series, Book 1
- By: E.M. Foner
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4 out of 5 stars 139
Kelly Frank is EarthCent's top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she's in hock up to her ears for her furniture, which is likely to end up in a corridor because she's behind on rent for her room. Sometimes she has to wonder if the career she has put ahead of her personal life for 15 years is worth it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you can read this, buy this book.
- By Matthew on 05-04-17
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The Defenders
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Mark Douglas Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Taylor felt life was pretty good. Sure living in an underground bunker developing more sophisticated weapons to bomb the Soviets was less than ideal. But he had a pretty wife, and he was safe from the radioactive poisoned environment that existed above ground. The leadies, a sophisticated robot servant, could inform them of the devastating destruction, the bombed out cities, and the further Soviet attacks. But it was a strange fact that the latest leadie to return to the bunker showed no sign of radioactivity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Defenders
- By Dr. Joe de Beauchamp on 12-22-18
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The Hanging Stranger
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
Imagine if you will, you have been underground during the day, and when you come up the world has changed. There is a man hanging from a telephone pole right on Main Street, and no one seems to notice or if they do, they don't indeed care. Life appears otherwise normal, but is it? Who do you tell? Who can you tell? Or is anything really wrong? Philip K. Dick takes us into that nightmare where we run and things seen so real, but perhaps you are the one that is confused.
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5 out of 5 stars
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PKD Makes Use of Some Great Twists
- By Niels J. Rasmussen on 03-29-15
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Beyond the Door
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3 out of 5 stars 4
Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead--that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect.
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The Skull
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
In "The Skull", a convict is offered his freedom if he agrees to travel back in time and kill someone. He learns that the assassination target was the founder of a religious sect that grew in strength and influence from its inception in 1960. Carrying his target's skull so he can identify the religious leader, the convict comes to learn a terrible secret about why he was chosen to find its owner.
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Mr. Spaceship
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 8
We talk to our cars, and our computers; how about a spaceship which is powered by a human brain. In this short story by Philip K Dick, researchers find the ideal candidate, Kramer's old professor, a dying man who volunteers to donate his brain to the project.
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Date Night on Union Station
- EarthCent Ambassador Series, Book 1
- By: E.M. Foner
- Narrated by: Hollie Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4 out of 5 stars 139
Kelly Frank is EarthCent's top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she's in hock up to her ears for her furniture, which is likely to end up in a corridor because she's behind on rent for her room. Sometimes she has to wonder if the career she has put ahead of her personal life for 15 years is worth it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you can read this, buy this book.
- By Matthew on 05-04-17
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The Defenders
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Mark Douglas Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Taylor felt life was pretty good. Sure living in an underground bunker developing more sophisticated weapons to bomb the Soviets was less than ideal. But he had a pretty wife, and he was safe from the radioactive poisoned environment that existed above ground. The leadies, a sophisticated robot servant, could inform them of the devastating destruction, the bombed out cities, and the further Soviet attacks. But it was a strange fact that the latest leadie to return to the bunker showed no sign of radioactivity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Defenders
- By Dr. Joe de Beauchamp on 12-22-18
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The Hanging Stranger
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
Imagine if you will, you have been underground during the day, and when you come up the world has changed. There is a man hanging from a telephone pole right on Main Street, and no one seems to notice or if they do, they don't indeed care. Life appears otherwise normal, but is it? Who do you tell? Who can you tell? Or is anything really wrong? Philip K. Dick takes us into that nightmare where we run and things seen so real, but perhaps you are the one that is confused.
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5 out of 5 stars
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PKD Makes Use of Some Great Twists
- By Niels J. Rasmussen on 03-29-15
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Beyond the Door
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3 out of 5 stars 4
Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead--that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect.
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Volume I: The King of the Elves
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 165
The King of the Elves is the opening installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, expanded from the previous Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one previously unpublished, and one uncollected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic stories!
- By Renee Tang on 04-18-17
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The Variable Man
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
"The Variable Man" is one of Philip K. Dick's most famous stories. A "fix-it man" from the past accidentally winds up on Earth 200 years in the future. His arrival may well put a crack in the progress of a delicate war by computers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Variable man
- By Deedra on 02-06-18
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby, Luke Daniels, Peter Berkrot, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 151
Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than 100 short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects 10 of the best. In "Autofac," Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. "Exhibit Piece" and "The Commuter" feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Twilight Zone with Technology
- By Michael Perkowski on 01-30-18
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Second Variety
- By: Phillip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Tom Weiss
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance2.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
A war between the Soviet Union and the United States has been going on for years. Americans have resorted to guerrilla warfare, with small contingents operating deep within the enemy-occupied territory. As a desperate measure, they have constructed extremely efficient killer robots called claws that can operate on their own and are capable of repairing themselves and improving on their own design. Be careful what you design. Never make it smarter than yourself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Horrible quality!
- By John Shields on 05-21-15
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Piper in the Woods
- By: Phillip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Tom Weiss
- Length: 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
An army doctor on Earth is puzzled by a soldier who returns from asteroid Y-3 claiming he's a plant. As more men and women on the asteroid claim they're plants, the doctor decides to travel to the asteroid to solve the enigma. During his investigation, he discovers the soldiers believe they have been turned into plants by natives in the asteroid's woods called Pipers. The doctor goes into the woods in search of the Pipers and discovers a strange young woman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is a good one.
- By Matthew S. Hill on 01-18-19
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The Gun
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
In "The Gun", a group of space explorers are shot down above a deserted planet. While some of the crew work on repairing the ship, the remainder set out to investigate the planet. Otherwise unpopulated, they discover the huge gun that shot them down sitting atop a trove of cultural artifacts from a bygone civilization. What harm could come of dismantling the gun and taking a few of the artifacts home with them?
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The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar
- Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
- By: Matt Simon
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4 out of 5 stars 19
From the man behind the popular Wired series "Absurd Creature of the Week", a fun, fascinating collection of unique animals and the unbelievable evolutionary traits they use to survive the most extreme scenarios: zombie ants mind-controlled by a fungus; beautiful salamanders that can regenerate any part of their bodies including their brains; and much more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable and well written
- By Philomath on 11-30-17
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Ubik
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,274
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,950
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,949
Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in "half-life," a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great performance of an SF classic
- By Steve on 07-10-16
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Time Is the Simplest Thing
- By: Clifford Simak
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Space travel has been abandoned in the 22nd century. It is deemed too dangerous, expensive, and inconvenient - and now the all-powerful Fishhook company holds the monopoly on interstellar exploration for commercial gain. Their secret is the use of "parries", human beings with the remarkable telepathic ability to expand their minds throughout the universe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An old SciFy story but a good one.
- By Bob Wilson on 01-26-18
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The Eyes Have It
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
"The Eyes Have It" is a humorous, early short story by Philip K. Dick that first appeared in Science Fiction Stories in 1953. In it, a bus-riding reader of a discarded melodrama with an overactive imagination is persuaded by the hackneyed prose that the world has been taken over by aliens. Thus, when "eyes slowly roved around the room", the reader imagines disembodied eyeballs traveling of their own free will. A rare example of satire from the Dick canon.
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The Lesson
- By: Cadwell Turnbull
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Ron Butler
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4 out of 5 stars 82
An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years, the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of super-advanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders, and a peace that cannot last.
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3 out of 5 stars
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That was it?
- By Anonymous User on 06-26-19
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Time Is Irreverent
- By: Marty Essen
- Narrated by: Michael Fell
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 59
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 59
What if you could make a change to history that would eliminate the Spanish Inquisition, American slavery, World War II, global warming, and an egomaniacal US president who thought he was smart enough to drop nuclear bombs here and there without negative consequences? What if that change also made the United States and five billion people poof from existence? Would you do it?
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fun Science Fiction Adventure.
- By cosmitron on 06-07-18
Publisher's Summary
What is a Wub? Perhaps a play on words by Philip K. Dick in this 1952 science fiction short story that first appeared in Planet Stories. As Philip K. Dick describes it, a Wub is an extremely ugly piglike creature, inhabiting the planet Mars, that may be good to eat. Most of the crew of the space ship are repulsed, however, when it speaks. But not the Captain, leading to a very interesting turn of events.
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