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Indeholder "Stability", "Roog", "The Little Movement", "Beyond Lies the Wub", "The Gun", "The Skull", "The Defenders", "Mr. Spaceship", "Piper in the Woods", "The Infinites", "The Preserving machine", "Expendable", "The Variable man", "The Indefatigable Frog", "The Crystal crypt", "The Short Happy
"Stability" handler om en ond by der får lokket Robert Benton til at slippe den fri fra en gammel forbandelse.
"Roog" handler om en hund der tror skraldemændene er aliens der stjæler fra dens mennesker.
"The Little Movement" handler om legetøjssoldater der pønser på at overtage verden men bliver slået af teddybjørnene.
"Beyond Lies the Wub" handler om en wub, der ligner et stort svin, men det er dumt at forsøge at slå en ihjel for at spise den.
"The Gun" handler om kaptajnen Dorle Tance og Formar der er taget til Jorden efter en atomkrig og det eneste tilbageværende er et arkiv over menneskehedens kultur men det er bevogtet af en autonom og selvreparerende kæmpekanon.
"The Skull" handler om ???
"The Defenders" handler om at 8 år efter at atomkrigen brød ud lever menneskene under jorden i frygt for det radioaktive helvede på overfladen hvor kun robotter kan overleve - eller er det nu helt sandt?
"Mr. Spaceship" handler om ???
"Piper in the Woods" handler om doctor Henry Harris står overfor en epidemi af folk fra en udpostasteroide som mener at de er blevet til planter - det vegeterer han lidt over efter et besøg på asteroiden.
"The Infinites" handler om ???
"The Preserving machine" handler om en opfinder Doc Labyrinth der mener at civilisationen står for fald og laver en maskine til at gemme musik som levende væsener og laver en Mozart fugl og en Bach bille.
"Expendable" handler om at menneskene kom til Jorden udefra og forstødte myrerne fra herredømmet - siden har en krig raset i det skjulte med edderkopperne som en snedig allieret for menneskene.
"The Variable man" handler om ???
"The Indefatigable Frog" handler om et par professorer bygger et apparat for at få afgjort et af Zeno fremsat paradox om en frø.
"The Crystal crypt" handler om ???
"The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" handler om en sko der bliver levende pgra Principle of Sufficient Irritation anvendt af Doc Labyrinth.
"The Builder" handler om en mand, der begynder at bygge en stor båd men finder først ud af hvorfor da det begynder at regne.
"Meddler" handler om at Berkowsky får ret i en forudsigelse om at det er dumt at lave om på fremtiden, da Hasten får nogle dræbersommerfugle med tilbage fra fremtiden.
"Paycheck" handler om Jennings der har været ansat i to år for Rethrick koncernen som elektronikmekaniker og en høj løn på 50000 credits mod at få slettet de to år af hukommelsen bagefter - nu vågner han og opdager at han har byttet lønchecken med en pose med syv tilsyneladende værdiløse småting i - men han ender med at få pigen og det halve kongerige.
"The Great C" handler om den store Computer tager sig betalt i menneskeofre for ikke at lade flere atombomber regne ned over menneskene.
"Out in the Garden" handler om Robert Nye der har en grim mistanke om hans kone og legenden om Leda og svanen.
"The King of the Elves" handler om tankpasseren Shadrach Jones bliver opsøgt af elvere og bliver deres nye konge efter et drabeligt slag med troldene og deres konge.
"Colony" handler om Major Lawrence Hall der sammen med hundreder af andre er pionerkoloni på planet Blå men desværre er planeten beboet af en kameleonorganisme der kan efterligne alle uorganiske ting som mikroskoper og den slags helt perfekt - de forsøger at evakuere planeten ved at gå nøgne ombord i redningsskibet.
"Prize Ship" handler om Ganymedes har krammet på Jorden og dens kolonier da jordboerne erobrer noget de tror er et rumskib - bortset fra at det ser ud til at stoppe ved Lilliput og Brobdingnag.
"Nanny" handler om børnepasningsmaskiner der er programmeret til at slås med konkurrenternes modeller så man hele tiden er tvunget til at købe en ny.
Min favoritalien er klart en Wub, så alene af den grund er dette en fremragende novellesamling
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Life of the Brown Oxford", "The Builder", "Meddler", "Paycheck", "The Great C", "Out in the Garden", "The King of the Elves", "Colony", "Prize Ship", "Nanny"."Stability" handler om en ond by der får lokket Robert Benton til at slippe den fri fra en gammel forbandelse.
"Roog" handler om en hund der tror skraldemændene er aliens der stjæler fra dens mennesker.
"The Little Movement" handler om legetøjssoldater der pønser på at overtage verden men bliver slået af teddybjørnene.
"Beyond Lies the Wub" handler om en wub, der ligner et stort svin, men det er dumt at forsøge at slå en ihjel for at spise den.
"The Gun" handler om kaptajnen Dorle Tance og Formar der er taget til Jorden efter en atomkrig og det eneste tilbageværende er et arkiv over menneskehedens kultur men det er bevogtet af en autonom og selvreparerende kæmpekanon.
"The Skull" handler om ???
"The Defenders" handler om at 8 år efter at atomkrigen brød ud lever menneskene under jorden i frygt for det radioaktive helvede på overfladen hvor kun robotter kan overleve - eller er det nu helt sandt?
"Mr. Spaceship" handler om ???
"Piper in the Woods" handler om doctor Henry Harris står overfor en epidemi af folk fra en udpostasteroide som mener at de er blevet til planter - det vegeterer han lidt over efter et besøg på asteroiden.
"The Infinites" handler om ???
"The Preserving machine" handler om en opfinder Doc Labyrinth der mener at civilisationen står for fald og laver en maskine til at gemme musik som levende væsener og laver en Mozart fugl og en Bach bille.
"Expendable" handler om at menneskene kom til Jorden udefra og forstødte myrerne fra herredømmet - siden har en krig raset i det skjulte med edderkopperne som en snedig allieret for menneskene.
"The Variable man" handler om ???
"The Indefatigable Frog" handler om et par professorer bygger et apparat for at få afgjort et af Zeno fremsat paradox om en frø.
"The Crystal crypt" handler om ???
"The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" handler om en sko der bliver levende pgra Principle of Sufficient Irritation anvendt af Doc Labyrinth.
"The Builder" handler om en mand, der begynder at bygge en stor båd men finder først ud af hvorfor da det begynder at regne.
"Meddler" handler om at Berkowsky får ret i en forudsigelse om at det er dumt at lave om på fremtiden, da Hasten får nogle dræbersommerfugle med tilbage fra fremtiden.
"Paycheck" handler om Jennings der har været ansat i to år for Rethrick koncernen som elektronikmekaniker og en høj løn på 50000 credits mod at få slettet de to år af hukommelsen bagefter - nu vågner han og opdager at han har byttet lønchecken med en pose med syv tilsyneladende værdiløse småting i - men han ender med at få pigen og det halve kongerige.
"The Great C" handler om den store Computer tager sig betalt i menneskeofre for ikke at lade flere atombomber regne ned over menneskene.
"Out in the Garden" handler om Robert Nye der har en grim mistanke om hans kone og legenden om Leda og svanen.
"The King of the Elves" handler om tankpasseren Shadrach Jones bliver opsøgt af elvere og bliver deres nye konge efter et drabeligt slag med troldene og deres konge.
"Colony" handler om Major Lawrence Hall der sammen med hundreder af andre er pionerkoloni på planet Blå men desværre er planeten beboet af en kameleonorganisme der kan efterligne alle uorganiske ting som mikroskoper og den slags helt perfekt - de forsøger at evakuere planeten ved at gå nøgne ombord i redningsskibet.
"Prize Ship" handler om Ganymedes har krammet på Jorden og dens kolonier da jordboerne erobrer noget de tror er et rumskib - bortset fra at det ser ud til at stoppe ved Lilliput og Brobdingnag.
"Nanny" handler om børnepasningsmaskiner der er programmeret til at slås med konkurrenternes modeller så man hele tiden er tvunget til at købe en ny.
Min favoritalien er klart en Wub, så alene af den grund er dette en fremragende novellesamling
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Collection
Publication
Voyager (1990), Edition: New Ed, Paperback
Description
Fiction. Science Fiction. Short Stories. HTML: Beyond Lies the Wub was the first story ever published by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. In this short story Peterson buys a "wub" from a local before his departure from Mars and takes it back aboard the ship on which he is a crew member. But the captain Franco cites his concerns about the extra weight of having this huge pig-like creature on-board, although he really seems more interested in how it might taste. Once in space however, the crew realize that the wub is an intelligent being, able to use telepathy and perhaps even control people's minds..
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LibraryThing member jefware
All PK Dick stories from the 50's. The best was Nanny. Each story deserves to be savored.
LibraryThing member salimbol
An excellent collection of Dick's early stories. They're as intelligent and well-written as you'd think, with more of a sense of humour in some of them than I'd expected (I tend to think of Dick as so very *serious*, but I see I've done him an injustice). Unsurprisingly, they have a very 50s
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LibraryThing member dagon12
I know that this is going to be sacrilegious but I did not enjoy this collection very much. Most of the stories were not interesting or easily predictable. It was very easy to know what was going to happen. Plus the stories were also very heavy-handed in their themes: anti-war, anti-government and
"Roog" - A dog protects his house from the Roog.
"Expendable" - A man is caught in an insect war.
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anti-corporation. When it comes down to it, the theme is not as important to me as the story that is being told. I'm fine with anti-war stories so long as I am interested in the story unfolding. In this case though, the theme is so in the reader's face that it is impossible to ignore. Not necessarily a problem so long as the story could carry it. Unfortunately that was not the case here. And as I mentioned, easily predictable which means no mystery as it unfolds. I was really hoping to like the collection since so many movies are based on Dick's ideas. I've listed the few stories that I did like below but otherwise I can't in good conscience recommend this collection. It was difficult for me to finish reading the book."Roog" - A dog protects his house from the Roog.
"Expendable" - A man is caught in an insect war.
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LibraryThing member Stevil2001
This contains Dick's short fiction originally published from 1952 to 1954, sorted in order of original composition. The Gollancz edition titles this volume Beyond Lies the Wub, but (mostly) the same set of stories have been released by other publishers under the titles The Short Happy Life of the
There's a lot in here: twenty-five stories across almost four hundred pages in not very large print. If you've read Philip K. Dick before, you have some idea of what to expect, but this material isn't consistently like the weirdness of his 1960s novels. It's not atypical 1950s science fiction: weird ideas explored, but too often the weird idea itself seems to be the point, and the story doesn't have much of interest to say. The very first story, "Stability," is a good example of this. On the other hand, I think the stories—once you get past the first few, which are perhaps a little on the bumpy side—are always fairly well told, in Dick's typical sharp but matter-of-fact prose style that pulls you in. "The Crystal Crypt" is one of these: it's a kind of Campbellian/Asimovian puzzle story, but it's a good one. Or, say, "The Preserving Machine": a weird idea explained, then undermined at the last moment. Some might make you roll your eyes a bit, like the twist endings of "The Builder" or "Prize Ship," but you know, Dick can still make it work. I did have good fun with "The Indefatigable Frog," where a group of scientists test Zeno's paradox by shrinking themselves smaller and smaller as they try to cross through a tube.
There's a lot more people zipping around interstellar space on starships than you would expect from Dick's most famous novels, which tend to be his Earthbound (or at least solar systembound) ones. "Mr. Spaceship," about living spaceships trying to find an end to war, is like this. "The Infinities," about hyper-evolving humans is a cheeseball example of an idea that doesn't really make any scientific sense. But at its best, the interstellar backdrop is just a backstory, largely irrelevant, for whatever weird story Dick wants to tell in the foreground, such as in "Colony," about people going paranoid as their objects are seemingly plotting against them.
Though there are occasional glimpses of it, we don't get much of what Dick's best novels reveal as his strength: people dealing with the bullshit and the weirdness of seemingly ordinary life. But there are fragments of this theme in stories like "The Little Movement" (about living toys) and "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" (about living shoes). I liked "Nanny," about mechanical nannies who fight each other, and the only choice you have as a parent is just to buy a bigger and stronger mechanical nanny than the other families, so that yours can win any fights! I also liked "The King of the Elves" a lot, about an ordinary guy who becomes just what the title promises.
There's a lot of time travel here, often dealing with predestination paradoxes or some other kind of twist, the kind of stuff that these days you perhaps can't move without running into, especially post–Steven Moffat's Doctor Who, but in those days must have been much more original. "Meddler," where people go into the future to find out why humanity is doomed and thus doom humanity, is a good example of this, and so is "The Skull," about a man who travels back in time to kill a dissident but discovers something unexpected about him, but the best of them is surely "Paycheck," where a man quits his job, loses his memory, and then receives the exact seven items he needs to carry out a plan he doesn't remember devising; all of the items seem like worthless junk, but each one proves handy at the exact right moment.
There are a number of stories about apocalypses, on both Earth and elsewhere: "The Great C," "The Gun," and so on. The one that stuck out to me the most, though, was "The Defenders," about people living in underground bunkers because the surface of the Earth has been rendered uninhabitable... only there's a bit of a twist that will be familiar to anyone who's ever seen the 1967-68 Doctor Who serial The Enemy of the World! Dick expanded "The Defenders" into the novel The Penultimate Truth in 1964, and I have to imagine David Whittaker had read it. Hopefully whoever does the Doctor Who Magazine "Fact of Fiction" for Enemy of the World doesn't miss this.
Dick at his best is both dark and humorous; I enjoyed "Beyond Lies the Wub," about a space crew who brings an animal on board to eat... only to discover that it's sapient, and even more besides.
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Brown Oxford, Paycheck, and The King of the Elves. (It's not at all confusing.)There's a lot in here: twenty-five stories across almost four hundred pages in not very large print. If you've read Philip K. Dick before, you have some idea of what to expect, but this material isn't consistently like the weirdness of his 1960s novels. It's not atypical 1950s science fiction: weird ideas explored, but too often the weird idea itself seems to be the point, and the story doesn't have much of interest to say. The very first story, "Stability," is a good example of this. On the other hand, I think the stories—once you get past the first few, which are perhaps a little on the bumpy side—are always fairly well told, in Dick's typical sharp but matter-of-fact prose style that pulls you in. "The Crystal Crypt" is one of these: it's a kind of Campbellian/Asimovian puzzle story, but it's a good one. Or, say, "The Preserving Machine": a weird idea explained, then undermined at the last moment. Some might make you roll your eyes a bit, like the twist endings of "The Builder" or "Prize Ship," but you know, Dick can still make it work. I did have good fun with "The Indefatigable Frog," where a group of scientists test Zeno's paradox by shrinking themselves smaller and smaller as they try to cross through a tube.
There's a lot more people zipping around interstellar space on starships than you would expect from Dick's most famous novels, which tend to be his Earthbound (or at least solar systembound) ones. "Mr. Spaceship," about living spaceships trying to find an end to war, is like this. "The Infinities," about hyper-evolving humans is a cheeseball example of an idea that doesn't really make any scientific sense. But at its best, the interstellar backdrop is just a backstory, largely irrelevant, for whatever weird story Dick wants to tell in the foreground, such as in "Colony," about people going paranoid as their objects are seemingly plotting against them.
Though there are occasional glimpses of it, we don't get much of what Dick's best novels reveal as his strength: people dealing with the bullshit and the weirdness of seemingly ordinary life. But there are fragments of this theme in stories like "The Little Movement" (about living toys) and "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" (about living shoes). I liked "Nanny," about mechanical nannies who fight each other, and the only choice you have as a parent is just to buy a bigger and stronger mechanical nanny than the other families, so that yours can win any fights! I also liked "The King of the Elves" a lot, about an ordinary guy who becomes just what the title promises.
There's a lot of time travel here, often dealing with predestination paradoxes or some other kind of twist, the kind of stuff that these days you perhaps can't move without running into, especially post–Steven Moffat's Doctor Who, but in those days must have been much more original. "Meddler," where people go into the future to find out why humanity is doomed and thus doom humanity, is a good example of this, and so is "The Skull," about a man who travels back in time to kill a dissident but discovers something unexpected about him, but the best of them is surely "Paycheck," where a man quits his job, loses his memory, and then receives the exact seven items he needs to carry out a plan he doesn't remember devising; all of the items seem like worthless junk, but each one proves handy at the exact right moment.
There are a number of stories about apocalypses, on both Earth and elsewhere: "The Great C," "The Gun," and so on. The one that stuck out to me the most, though, was "The Defenders," about people living in underground bunkers because the surface of the Earth has been rendered uninhabitable... only there's a bit of a twist that will be familiar to anyone who's ever seen the 1967-68 Doctor Who serial The Enemy of the World! Dick expanded "The Defenders" into the novel The Penultimate Truth in 1964, and I have to imagine David Whittaker had read it. Hopefully whoever does the Doctor Who Magazine "Fact of Fiction" for Enemy of the World doesn't miss this.
Dick at his best is both dark and humorous; I enjoyed "Beyond Lies the Wub," about a space crew who brings an animal on board to eat... only to discover that it's sapient, and even more besides.
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LibraryThing member RobinJacksonPearson
Vintage mid-century SF at its finest. It's filled with lots of intriguing scenarios, a few optimistic and several horrific. Some of my favorite stories in this collection were The Variable Man, Paycheck, Beyond Lies the Wub, and Roog.
LibraryThing member Arten60
Great stuff I was rather enamoured with Beyond lies the Wub, The Indefatigable Frog and Prize ship. The latter had you thinking about Gullivers travels, then he hits you with the idea of an expanding universe. Interestingly another book in my library The Final Theory written by Mark Mccutcheon puts
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forward the idea the whole universe and everything in it is expanding and that gravity does not exist, what we think of as gravity is the force of expansion. Synchronicity, maybe. Show Less
LibraryThing member Gregorio_Roth
A really short book about what lies within a man's hunger.
LibraryThing member lavaturtle
Reading this really is more like reading poetry than reading a science fiction novel. You have to stop and let each story roll around in your mind.
LibraryThing member m_mozeleski
The short story collection definitely shows how PKD approached topics and literature, and each story is a little more subtle than the last. PKD definitely favors standoffs between older, archaic methods of doing things and newer, modern ways of doing things. This theme is made clearest in "The
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Variable Man".9/10
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LibraryThing member DanielSTJ
By far one of the best Sci-Fi and short short story collections I have read. Nearly ever story is engaging and enthralling. Very enjoyable.
LibraryThing member stephanie_M
WHERE is the rest of this novel? I can only find ONE story in this online e-book, and that's just the Beyond Lies the WUB story. I thought there was supposed to be more....?
LibraryThing member wez
The Wub is a telepathic creature sold as food. But when the crew of a spaceship bought one, they did not realize that the Wub could also talk. This casts doubt among the crew whether the Wub should be eaten. This short tale questions where we draw the line about eating animals.
LibraryThing member expatscot
I couldn't say I was a Dick fan boy, but perfectly decent thought provoking stuff that's well worth a read.
LibraryThing member leslie.98
I really enjoyed these short stories - some were funny (especially "The Eyes Have It"), some were a bit creepy ("Beyond Lies the Wub", "The Hanging Stranger" in particular). "The Skull" was a great time-travel story.
LibraryThing member Koralis
Good thing I gave up meat in December. A talking pig that convinces you not to eat it, very short, and to the point. Good read.
Subjects
Awards
Gigamesh Award (1990)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1947 - 1952 (short stories)
1987
Physical description
510 p.; 19.5 cm
ISBN
0586207643 / 9780586207642
Local notes
Omslag: Chris Moore
Omslaget viser et lille rumskib over en enorm bygningskonstruktion - en rumlufthavn måske
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, bind 1
Gutenberg, bind 28554
Gutenberg versionen er kun titelnovellen.
Omslaget viser et lille rumskib over en enorm bygningskonstruktion - en rumlufthavn måske
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, bind 1
Gutenberg, bind 28554
Gutenberg versionen er kun titelnovellen.
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Pages
510
DDC/MDS
| 813.54 |