The Unteleported Man
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 Cover of first edition (paperback) |
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| Author | Philip K. Dick |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
| Released | 1966 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 100 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
The Unteleported Man (later republished in an expanded form as Lies, Inc.) is a 1966 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, first published as a short story in 1964.
[edit] Plot introduction
A new teleportation technology makes space travel by spaceship redundant. A new colony, Whale's Mouth, is destination for forty million colonists, but it is a one way journey - no teleportation back to Earth is possible. The only way to return is by space ship, an 18-year journey.
Rachmael Ben Applebaum, whose spaceship business has been ruined by teleportation, decides to make the journey to Whale's Mouth in a starship. Driven by visions that the utopian vision may be false, he chooses to make the trip in case a colonist may decide to return. Powerful figures oppose his journey.
After many attempts to stop him, he departs on his journey. It later transpires that the colony is in fact a garrison state, with the colonists working as indentured labour. The "one way" operation of the teleport turns out fo be false, and once the colony-state is toppled, Rachmael Ben Applebaum turns his ship around and returns home.
Lies, Inc., the expanded version of The Unteleported Man, includes about 100 pages of new material. These new chapters focus on a drug trip that Rachmeal goes through after being hit by an LSD tipped dart. The new material begins and ends with the phrase "Acrid smoke billowed about him."
[edit] Publishing history
This particular book has an unusual publishing history compared to other novels by Dick. The story originally appeared in Fantastic Magazine in 1964. The story rights were then bought by Ace Books but Dick's subsequent revisions to bring the manuscript up to novel-length were rejected and the original story was published in 1966. Its first novel publication was as one half of Ace Double G-602, bound dos-à-dos with The Mind Monsters by Howard L. Cory.
In 1983, the full 80,000-word story was to be published, with Dick revising the material (some pages of the manuscript were missing, leading to continuity problems), however Dick died before the revision was complete (PKD died in March 1982). The original story was published, with Dick's revisions and additional material to replace the lost pages, in 1984 as Lies, Inc..
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