"The Unteleported Man"

Title"The Unteleported Man"
Year for Search1964
AuthorsDick, Philip K[indred](1928-82)
Secondary TitleFantastic Stories of Imagination
Volume / Edition 13.12
Pagination6-78
Date PublishedDecember 1964
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Various dystopias. Teleporting has become the standard means of interstellar travel, and a man who intends to travel the slow way runs into a conspiracy to stop him because the planet controlled by the people running the transportation system is being filled with slave labor. Lies, Inc. is the Listening Instructional Educational Services.

Additional Publishers

Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1966. Rpt. in A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), separately paged. Rpt. with gaps where manuscript pages were missing. New York: Berkley, 1983. U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1976. Rewritten version with gaps restored by John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) as Lies, Inc. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984.

Info Notes

. For the relationship among the texts, see Andrew M. Butler, "LSD, Lying Ink, and Lies, Inc." Science Fiction Studies 32.2 (96) (July 2005): 265-80.

Title Note

Rewritten version with gaps restored by John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) as Lies, Inc. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

(1928-82)

Full Text

1964 Dick, Philip K[indred] (1928-82). “The Unteleported Man.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 13.12 (December 1964): 6-78. Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1966. Rpt. in A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), separately paged. Rpt. with gaps where manuscript pages were missing. New York: Berkley, 1983. U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1976. Rewritten version with gaps restored by John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) as Lies, Inc. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. For the relationship among the texts, see Andrew M. Butler, “LSD, Lying Ink, and Lies, Inc.Science Fiction Studies 32.2 (96) (July 2005): 265-80. O

Various dystopias. Teleporting has become the standard means of interstellar travel, and a man who intends to travel the slow way runs into a conspiracy to stop him because the planet controlled by the people running the transportation system is being filled with slave labor. Lies, Inc. is the Listening Instructional Educational Services.