PHILIP K. DICK

THE VARIABLE MAN

THE VARIABLE PHILIP K. DICK

ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL

Predictability has come a long way. The computers of the future can tell you if you’re going to win a war before you fire a shot. Unfortunately they’re predicting perpetual standoff between the Terran and Centaurian Empires. What they need is something unpredictable, what they get is Thomas Cole,

a man from the past accidently dragged forward in time. Will he fit their calculations, or is he the random variable that can break the stalemate?

— The Variable Man first appeared in the September, 1953 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine.

(Summary by Gregg Margarite)

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 2:49:11

READ BY GREGG MARGARITE

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