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The Defenders by Philip K. Dick

The Defenders

Philip K. Dick

Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · August 24, 2015

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Who it’s for
A hard-won promise of peace becomes an unsettling question about what comes next.
Genres
Sci-Fi Short Stories, Dystopian, War Fiction
Published
Start Publishing LLC, August 24, 2015

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About this book

"It has taken thousands of generations to achieve," the A-class leady concluded. "Hundreds of centuries of bloodshed and destruction. But each war was a step toward uniting mankind. And now the end is in sight: a world without war. But even that is only the beginning of a new stage of history."

Peace, Unsettled

A hard-won promise of peace becomes an unsettling question about what comes next.

Come here for

  • The uneasy idea of peace built on generations of war
  • A compact science-fiction meditation on humanity’s next stage

Expect

  • A sharp contrast between centuries of bloodshed and a world without war
  • Speculation that looks beyond peace, rather than treating it as an ending

Where it sits

Sci-Fi Short Stories60%
War Fiction45%
Dystopian39%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Action & Adventure
  • Sci-Fi
  • Military Sci-Fi
Authors
Philip K. Dick
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Published
August 24, 2015
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Action & Adventure