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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

In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: “There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.” They have mistaken the

could move at this rate because his machine was able, in one five-billionth of a second, to simulate one hundred septillion events at forty octillion different locations simultaneously. And if anyone questions these figures, let him work it out for himself.

As he came in today, the Turk gave him a nod. “There’s a woman waiting for you in your alcove. Abglanz-shielded. Asked for you by name. Just so you know.” Rustem considered whether he should run. No, this wasn’t the way Moscow would go about killing him. He wasn’t worth a personal visit. The level of irritation he had caused them was worth, at the

Chris Langton’s theories about the generative power of liquid networks are developed in his essay “Life at the Edge of Chaos.”