A Short Story Review: Recall Mechanism, Philip K. Dick (1959)

First publication for 'Recall Mechanism', If, July 1959

4/5 (Very Good)

“In the privacy of his living room, he sat dully examining a series  of reports on carrot mutations.”

Paul Sharp files reports on what to rebuild in the swathes of H-bomb blasted California landscape for the Division of War Destruction Salvage…  

A Short Story Review: ‘The Builder’, Philip K. Dick, (1953)

2/5 (Poor)

For Philip K. Dick, ‘The Builder’ is not one of his better stories — nor is close to the best of his early 1950s works (‘The Preserving Machine’).  A man (with the aid of his son) despite the continuous

A Short Story Review: ‘The Preserving Machine’ Philip K. Dick, (1953)

THE PRESERVING MACHINE

5/5 Brilliant

What an odd and profoundly moving (and disturbing) little gem.

A man visits Dr. Labyrinth who, in the past, had