Beyond Lies the Wub, Philip K. Dick
Beyond Lies the Wub, Philip K. Dick
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Beyond Lies the Wub

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Chris Lutkin

Unabridged: 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/17/2017

Synopsis

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.

About Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) - was a prolific novelist, essayist and short story writer - having published approximately 44 novels and 121 short stories. His works have been turned into numerous popular films, including Total Recall, Minority Report, and The Adjustment Bureau. He won a Hugo Award in 1963 for his novel The Man in the High Castle and has been named as one of the hundred greatest English-language writers by Time magazine.

About Chris Lutkin

Chris Lutkin has been an actor, a director, a writer, and a teacher for over thirty years. He has narrated several audiobooks including The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick, 12 Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Red Badge of Courage. He currently resides in Detroit with his wife, Heather, and their rescue dog, Buckaroo.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

Philip K. Dick's first published short story (Planet Stories, July 1952), begins with what may have been a familiar plot point even by the early 50's: a space ship crew, having acquired a cargo-hold filled with alien animals for food, plans to devour a creature--the "wub" of the title--more intellig......more

Goodreads review by J.L.

I’ve been reading a fair bit of Philip K. Dick this year and so felt it would be fun to tackle his first published SF story, “Beyond Lies the Wub” (Planet Stories, July 1952). Not surprisingly, it is a bit odd. Like his other works, PKD presents the reader with the possibility of new realities, in t......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽

Philip K. Dick's first published story, from 1952, has a group of humans loading up their spaceship with various birds and animals from Mars, which they plan to eat on the way back to Earth, despite the disapproval of the Martians. Captain Franco, it is clear from the start, is a boorish guy. But Fr......more

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