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ferrisscottr's review against another edition
4.0
The Defenders:
U.S. and Russia have the war to end all wars, the surface is unlivable so they retreat to living underground but they continue their war using robots. With all of humanity now living below the surface and the only thing on the surface of the planet are robots fighting the never ending war - what happens when a team from the U.S. decides to go back to the surface?
If you gave this to someone and gave them no knowledge of the author, I think they would read it and say something along the lines of "reads like a Philip Dick book" or "has ideas similar to what Philip Dick used to write" - it's all Dick all the time.
Good stuff.
U.S. and Russia have the war to end all wars, the surface is unlivable so they retreat to living underground but they continue their war using robots. With all of humanity now living below the surface and the only thing on the surface of the planet are robots fighting the never ending war - what happens when a team from the U.S. decides to go back to the surface?
If you gave this to someone and gave them no knowledge of the author, I think they would read it and say something along the lines of "reads like a Philip Dick book" or "has ideas similar to what Philip Dick used to write" - it's all Dick all the time.
Good stuff.
bobbo49's review against another edition
3.0
Short stories from the 1950s, set in the context of the burgeoning Cold War. More rudimentary than the better known works by Philip K. Dick, the stories are nonetheless intriguing and intelligent.
mylhibug's review against another edition
5.0
I am loving these short stories by Philip K. Dick a lot. The only complaint I may have would be with the narrator and let's be honest here, I'm just nitpicking now. This audiobook is a quick four-hour one that I'm pretty sure most of you will enjoy, well most sci-if fans at least. All these stories are from the 1950's and deal with various conflicts, be it us versus the Martians, or us versus the Commies. Good stuff!
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
fenny_42's review against another edition
3.0
This has been my least favorite work by PKD, of which I'm normally a huge fan. That may have been due to the subpar audio narrating, but the stories themselves were also less "out there" than PKD's usual fare. Some of the stories had good messages, but they seemed pretty "normal" compared PKD's other works. (See "The Eyes Have It"--my favorite short story by PKD.)
zober's review against another edition
3.0
Listened to an audiobook version of this, which did not contain "Beyond Lies the Wub" but did contain "The Skull". I did not like the voice of the audiobook narrator at all. Some of the stories were very simplistic; seems like PKD didn't trust his readers to notice anything and instead spelled everything out. I really liked The Defenders.
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