Vulcan's Hammer
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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 | 1960 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 139 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
Vulcan's Hammer is a 1960 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick.
[edit] Plot introduction
After a World War, the Earth is run by the Unity organisation. Unity runs the planet, controlling humans from childhood education onwards, but is fought by the Healer movement.
William Barris, a Unity director, discovers that the Vulcan 3 computer, the third in a line of supercomputers that helps run Unity, has become self aware and is considering drastic action to combat what it sees as a threat to itself.
[edit] Release details
- The novel is an expansion of a novella that was first printed in Future Science Fiction magazine in 1956.
- Vulcan's Hammer was first published as a novel by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-457, bound dos-à-dos with John Brunner's The Skynappers. It was republished in 2000 by the UK Orion Publishing Group in an omnibus volume containing three of Dick's novels originally published as Ace doubles, the other two being The Man Who Japed and Dr. Futurity.
