TY - BOOK AU - Dick,Philip K. AU - Ebel,Alex TI - The Variable Man T2 - Produced from Space Science Fiction September 1953 AV - PS PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - War stories KW - Weapons -- Fiction N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32154 ER -