Mr. Spaceship, Philip K. Dick
Mr. Spaceship, Philip K. Dick
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Mr. Spaceship

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Chris Lutkin

Unabridged: 1 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/17/2017

Synopsis

In Mr. Spaceship, humans in the distant future are at war with alien life forms known as Yuks. Using outdated, mechanical machines to wage war against the life-based weapons of the advanced Yuks, a research team decides to build a spaceship powered by a human brain. Enlisting a dying professor who agrees to donate his brain to the project, the humans believe they have turned the tables on the Yuks. But the spaceship has other plans.

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

Seven years before the coining of the word "cyborg," eight years before the publication of Anne McCaffrey's short story "The Ship Who Sang," Philip K. Dick published "Mr. Spaceship" in the magazine Imagination (1953). It tells the story of how, during a war with the planet of the "Yuks", a people wh......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Philip K. Dick. The Pluses: -Tons of great ideas. -Still mined for movies on the regular. -One of the better beards. The Minuses: -Prose a little weak. -Dialogue downright tough. I drove to PKD's grave not that long ago. It's an hour, maybe 90 minutes from my house. I took my brother's car because my own ca......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

If this concept, i.e. a human intelligence merged into a space ship, didn't serve as the inspiration for We Are Legion / The Bobiverse series, then I'm a monkey's uncle.......more

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