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    The Gun
    The Gun
    The Gun
    Ebook45 pages27 minutes

    The Gun

    By Herman B. Vestal and Philip K. Dick

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2007

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      After detecting atomic fission on a nearby planet, a group of explorers are shot down only to find all life on the world annihilated after a devastating war. They locate the massive gun that fired on them. It is programmed to protect a vault of treasures-relics of a failed civilization. Before they can take the treasure with them, however, the explorers need to do something about that gun.
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      A short story named The Gun makes you think of a dangerous weapon. You won't be wrong. And I mean cataclysmically wrong. A space craft with a crew of four investigate an unknown planet they thought unpopulated. They encounter The Gun, and the treasure it is guarding.

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