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    Beyond Lies the Wub
    Beyond Lies the Wub
    Beyond Lies the Wub
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    Beyond Lies the Wub

    By Herman B. Vestal and Philip K. Dick

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 1, 1988

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    • 5/5
      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 Variable Man".

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    • 3/5
      A really short book about what lies within a man's hunger.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 2/5
      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 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.
    • 4/5
      I couldn't say I was a Dick fan boy, but perfectly decent thought provoking stuff that's well worth a read.
    • 4/5
      Classic Philip K Dick short story. Many of the themes he has explored have been rehashed in subsequent sci-fi fiction and tv series. But you read it here first.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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 flavour, but without feeling too terribly dated.
    • 5/5
      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 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.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      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.

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    Beyond Lies the Wub - Herman B. Vestal

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    Title: Beyond Lies the Wub

    Author: Philip Kindred Dick

    Illustrator: Herman Vestal

    Release Date: April 11, 2009 [EBook #28554]

    Language: English

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    The wub, sir, Peterson said. It spoke!

    BEYOND LIES THE WUB

    By PHILIP K. DICK

    The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men

    talk like philosophers and live like fools.

    They had almost finished with the loading. Outside stood the Optus, his arms folded, his face sunk in gloom. Captain Franco walked leisurely down the gangplank, grinning.

    What's the matter? he said. You're getting paid for all this.

    The Optus said nothing. He turned away, collecting his robes. The Captain put his boot on the hem of the robe.

    Just a minute. Don't go off. I'm not finished.

    Oh? The Optus turned with dignity. I am going back to the village. He looked toward the animals and birds being driven up the gangplank into the spaceship. I must organize new hunts.

    Franco lit a cigarette. Why not? You people can go out into the veldt and track it all down again. But when we run out halfway between Mars and Earth—

    The Optus went off, wordless. Franco joined

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