The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick
"The Variable Man" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction novella first published in 1953. Humanity is trapped within its solar system by the powerful Centauran Empire, locked in a tense cold war. When Terra develops a faster-than-light weapon that could tip the balance, their predictive machines encounter an unforeseen problem: a repairman from 1913 accidentally pulled into the future. This "variable man" possesses an intuitive genius with machines that confounds
all calculations—and may determine the fate of humanity's desperate gamble for freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dick, Philip K., 1928-1982 |
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| Illustrator | Ebel, Alex, 1932-2013 |
| Title | The Variable Man |
| Series Title | Produced from Space Science Fiction September 1953. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Variable_Man |
| Credits | Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 88.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | War stories |
| Subject | Weapons -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 32154 |
| Release Date | Apr 27, 2010 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 24, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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