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Dopo la catastrofe che ha messo fine alla terza guerra mondiale, due Chiese si disputano i pochi sopravvissuti e i loro discendenti, flagellati dalle mutazioni. Una delle Chiese, quasi una proiezione del Vecchio Testamento, venera Deus Irae, il dio della collera, colui che ha causato nel mondo l'orrore atomico. Un Michelangelo senza braccia né gambe, Tibor McMasters, viene incaricato di realizzare il suo ritratto per rianimare la fede dei seguaci.

In "Beyond Lies the Wub", the crew of a spaceship buys a "wub", a large pig-like animal from a native martian to eat on the way home. The Wub turns out to be a sentient being capable of intelligent conversation, empathy, and possibly telepathy and mind control. When a crew member converses with the remarkable Wub, the captain makes a rash and violent decision that could put the return mission in danger.

What if...a machine could murder one person while implicating another for the crime? An alien being looked like livestock but spoke like a philosopher? Earth was ruined by war, and Mars was humanity's only hope? Robots were created to wage an unending war on the ravaged surface of Earth while man hid underground? Peeking into the future showed a worse result with each look?

The Crawlers is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. Submitted under the title Foundling Home, it was first published as The Crawlers in Imagination magazine, July 1954. The story starts out from the point of view of a crawler constructing one of its curious hives. The crawler seems sentient and to genuinely enjoy building its odd dwelling. The story is set in a small Midwestern town, with references later in the story to mysterious "pools" which seem to cause mutations.

In a 1978 interview, Phillip K. Dick said "I've always had this funny feeling about reality. It just seems very feeble to me sometimes. It doesn't seem to have the substantiality that it's suppose to have." Fortunately for us, Dick translated his feelings about reality into some of the greatest science fiction writing of all time. This collection features five stories from early in his career, when he found his voice as a writer.

Stuart Hadley è un giovane irrequieto e tormentato, insoddisfatto del lavoro, del matrimonio, dell'ambiente in cui vive e si muove, ma incapace di trovare certezze esistenziali alle quali ancorarsi per non perdere la propria identità in un universo che gli appare caotico e insensato, in un'America in procinto di diventare la più grande potenza mondiale e già alle prese con le sue stesse contraddizioni sociali. Stuart è un sognatore che si scontra con un mondo del quale sembra non capire e soprattutto non approvare nulla.

"Human Is" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Startling Stories, Winter 1955. The plot centers on the crisis facing a woman whose cold and emotionally abusive husband returns from a survey mission to the dying planet Rexor IV, changed for the better—his psyche was replaced by a Rexorian, glad to have escaped the confines of its dying planet. The story was adapted by Jessica Mecklenburg for an episode of the 2017 TV series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.

San Francisco 1992. La Terra è un pianeta desolato, devastato dalle guerre nucleari; gli esseri umani sono in gran parte emigrati nelle colonie esterne e numerose specie animali si sono estinte, tanto che possedere un animale domestico vivente è diventato un ambito status symbol. Per chi non può permettersi un cucciolo “vero”, come il cacciatore di taglie Rick Deckard, ci sono le pecore elettriche...

"Tony and the Beetles" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. The story is told from the point of view of a young boy, Tony, living on an alien world that humans have conquered. The native species are beetle like creatures called the Pas-udenti, some of whom Tony has befriended. He loses his innocence when they turn against him after news reaches the planet that the war has turned against the humans. A Ten-Year-Old Boy Grows Up Fast When History Catches Up With The Human Race.

"The Hanging Stranger" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, originally published in December 1953 in the magazine Science Fiction Adventures. The protagonist, Ed Loyce, is a store owner who is disturbed when he sees a stranger hanging from a lamppost, but finds that other people consider the apparent lynching unremarkable.

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.

"Survey Team" is the story of two planets, first published in Fantastic Universe (May 1954). "Survey Team" tells of a designated four man group of space travelers chosen to find another planet on which humankind can survive., since the once good green earth has been all but destroyed, rendered uninhabitable by nuclear war. The few remaining humans live miles beneath the surface, their resources depleted, their survival only a matter of time. Could Mars be the place they are looking for? The "survey team" has been chosen to find out.

This second collection of great sci-fi stories includes the following: "A Sense of Wonder" by Stephen Marlowe, "Seller of the Sky" by Dave Dryfus, "The Shining Cow" by Alex James, and more.

"Beyond Lies the Wub" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was his first published genre story, originally appearing in Planet Stories in July 1952. It was first collected in The Preserving Machine in 1969, and was included in The Best of Philip K. Dick in 1977. It was the title story for the first volume of the original edition of Dick's collected stories. Translations of "Beyond Lies the Wub" have appeared in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish; and the story has been included in more than a dozen anthologies.

"Meddler" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Future Science Fiction, October 1954 with illustration by Virgil Finlay. The technology called "The Dip" is used by historians to observe and study historical phenomenon. Wood is showing Hasten a new version of the Dip that can look into the future. Hastern is horrified by this. Not only is it illegal to Dip into the future, it is extremely dangerous. Anything from the future brought into the present has the potential to radically alter future event.

Qui est Palmer Eldritch ? Un aventurier parti dix ans plus tôt découvrir les richesses de Proxima du Centaure, aujourd'hui de retour dans le Système solaire. Un nabab de l'industrie qui s'apprête à lancer le K-Priss, une drogue destinée à remplacer le D-Liss, et à lui assurer le monopole du juteux marché des colons martiens. Un dieu omniprésent qui s'incarne dans chacun de vos trips. Un organisme extraterrestre venu prendre le contrôle de la Terre. Oui, tout cela, et peut-être plus encore.

Le forze dell'Asse hanno vinto la seconda guerra mondiale e l'America è divisa in due parti, l'una asservita al Reich, l'altra ai Giapponesi. Sul resto del mondo incombe una realtà da incubo: il credo della superiorità razziale ariana è dilagato a tal punto da togliere ogni volontà o possibilità di riscatto. L'Africa è ridotta a un deserto, vittima di una soluzione radicale di sterminio, mentre in Europa l'Italia ha preso le briciole e i nazisti dalle loro rampe di lancio si preparano a inviare razzi su Marte e bombe atomiche sul Giappone.

Sci Fi Shorts is a collection of classic science fiction stories from the golden age of space stories. This group of four unabridged short stories by various authors covers such adventures as invading technological hordes, superweapons on the moon, meteors with strange powers, and robot armies waging war on mankind.

"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.

In The Defenders, the Soviet and American survivors of a nuclear holocaust have created vast underground tunnels, so as to continue the war on the surface via remote control robots. When a robot from the surface is found not to be radioactive, a team of American scientists returns topside to investigate this anomaly. Expecting to see massive devastation, the scientists are unprepared for the shocking truth that awaits them.