The Variable Man (Paperback)

from lilywren

One of my favourite Sci-Fi authors is Philip K Dick. Most of his books I have read have involved dystopian futures providing an undercurrent of paranoia and fear of the authorities. The Variable Man was one of his earlier (short) stories, published in Space Science Fiction in 1953. This was my fi...

from DRFP

A very mixed bag of some of Dick's early shorts. I thought the titular story laughably poor. "Second Variety" is much better, a tense tale and probably the best story in the collection. "Minority Report" is a similarly tense story based around identity and motives but I felt the ending, although ...

from drardavis

This is one of Dick's first works and shows only traces of his genius, but those traces stand out above the background of a copy of the old style sci-fi that he must have been reading. The Variable man himself could become really interesting given more emphasis. A throw-away idea at the end, a de...

from bnielsen

Indeholder "The Variable Man", "Second Variety", "The Minority Report", "Autofac", "A World of Talent". "The Variable Man" handler om ??? "Second Variety" handler om i næste krig udvikler amerikanerne robotfabrikker der laver krigsrobotter - de nyeste varianter ligner mennesker og er tæt på at ud...

from Lyndatrue

The title of this work is REALLY important. The short novel, "The Variable Man," which is the first of five in this collection, has its own entry on LT. I'm probably blind when it comes to most of PKD's works, especially the early ones, but he's a rara avis, even in a world (Science Fiction) that...