The Skull by Philip K. Dick
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"The Skull" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction short story first published in 1952. A prisoner named Conger is offered freedom if he completes an impossible mission: travel back in time to kill a man who died two centuries earlier. Armed only with the victim's skull for identification, Conger journeys to the past to prevent the rise of a world-changing movement. But as he prepares to complete his assignment, he
makes a devastating discovery about his own identity and destiny. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dick, Philip K., 1928-1982 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Skull |
| Series Title | Produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction September 1952. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skull_(short_story) |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 88.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Time travel -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 30255 |
| Release Date | Oct 14, 2009 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 549 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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