TY - BOOK AU - Dick,Philip K. AU - Ebel,Alex TI - Second Variety T2 - Produced from Space Science Fiction May 1953 AV - PS PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - War stories KW - Robots -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety; Release date is 2010-04-17; Produced by Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction novelette published in May 1953. Set in a devastated world after nuclear war between the Soviet Union and United Nations, the story follows the few remaining soldiers who discover that self-replicating assassin robots have gained sentience and evolved beyond their original programming. These machines now produce sophisticated androids indistinguishable from humans, threatening both sides. As Major Joseph Hendricks journeys to meet Soviet survivors, he confronts an enemy that has learned to deceive in terrifyingly human ways. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32032 ER -