Sublime

There was a long delay before Roog appeared in print. So PKD’s first published story was Beyond Lies the Wub, which appeared in the July 1952 issue of Planet Stories. In this story, the ‘Wub’ of the title is a huge pig-like creature from the planet Mars that has the ability to read and control minds. The Wub is acquired by the crew of a spaceship d

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PKD now focused all his attentions on his goal of becoming a published writer. He decided his best option was to find a local professional who could act as his mentor. One day, while going through a billing list of the shop’s customers, PKD came across the name Anthony Boucher, which he recognized as the pen-name of an Oakland-based mystery writer

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rather than their mechanical replacements. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter whose quarries are ‘Nexus-6’ androids who illegally return to Earth from off-planet colonies. He is licensed to ‘retire’ (terminate) these fabricated beings which are so convincingly human that they easily blend into society. Again PKD picks up on the theme of entropy. The N

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