The Dick, Philip K. 1928-1982 creator Vestal, Herman B. 1916-2007 text utu 2009 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gun_(short_story) Release date is 2009-06-15 Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Science fiction Short stories PS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29132 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29132 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133650.0 29132