The Gun by Philip K. Dick
"The Gun" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction short story first published in 1952. Space explorers investigating what seems to be a deserted planet are mysteriously shot down and forced to crash land. Their search for answers leads them to ancient ruins and a deadly automated weapon programmed to destroy anything that flies overhead. The gun protects something precious beneath it—remnants of a lost civilization. But destroying their mechanical enemy
may not be enough to escape this world alive. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dick, Philip K., 1928-1982 |
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| Illustrator | Vestal, Herman B., 1916-2007 |
| Title | The Gun |
| Series Title | Produced from Planet Stories September 1952. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gun_(short_story) |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 88.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 29132 |
| Release Date | Jun 15, 2009 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 5, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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