The Dick, Philip K. 1928-1982 creator Ebel, Alex 1932-2013 text utu 2010 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Variable Man" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction novella first published in 1953. Humanity is trapped within its solar system by the powerful Centauran Empire, locked in a tense cold war. When Terra develops a faster-than-light weapon that could tip the balance, their predictive machines encounter an unforeseen problem: a repairman from 1913 accidentally pulled into the future. This "variable man" possesses an intuitive genius with machines that confounds all calculations—and may determine the fate of humanity's desperate gamble for freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Variable_Man Release date is 2010-04-27 Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Original publication data not identified Science fiction War stories Weapons -- Fiction PS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32154 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32154 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133731.0 32154