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Title: The Defenders
Author: Philip K. Dick
Narrator: Chris Lutkin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-19-17
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic
Publisher's Summary:
In The Defenders, the Soviet and American survivors of a nuclear holocaust have created vast underground tunnels, so as to continue the war on the surface via remote control robots. When a robot from the surface is found not to be radioactive, a team of American scientists returns topside to investigate this anomaly. Expecting to see massive devastation, the scientists are unprepared for the shocking truth that awaits them.
Members Reviews:
An Exceptional Dystopian Science Fiction Tale!!!!
Philip K Dick is among the most accomplished writers of Science Fiction in history. During his 30 year career he wrote numerous novels and short stories, many of which were adapted for movies and television. I particularly enjoyed thus dystopian short story about an earth where the US and Russian survivors of a nuclear war have moved underground and continued the conflict with androids for eight additional years. While there seems that no end is in sight, some people question the resolve of the androids efforts towards winning the war. Prepare yourself for a great ending!!!
Think, Thank, Thunk went the de-liberate Leadys.
Think, Thank, Thunk
Review of The Defenders by Phillip Rick
To Liberate the masses from the opiates of the war politic think, the Lead (er) ys were cybernetically driven to Devine first, then to lastly be by default De-liberators of consensus mass momentum, of group flight to fight. To fight xenophobic others, the identifiable enemies campaigning against steady progress. Enemies of the city, the town, the family, the status quo, the nation state itself. Enemies of "our" way of life. Attacking sacred values by encountering, by endangering, by engaging established traditions with the irrelevant resistance of chaos theory anarchism. The demons of occupation attacking peaceful centralized common sense. Ravaging the studied elite and the youthful centers Like a viral outbreak.
To find an oasis of soldierless violent hemispheric classless struggle, the automatons assessed the hierarchical analytic seeds of discontent and found the garden of destruction fruitless.
. . .
The last great war.
Mankind is fighting a great world war. Humans have had to go underground to survive. Robots continue the fight on the first radioactive surface of the world. The fight has gone on for eight years now.
This is a great story even if it is a little dated. The war is being fought between the Soviets and America as the cold war goes hot. Man hasn't conquered space at this point (not that we have really either).
It is a little predictable. I saw where it was going around the halfway mark. Still it was masterfully executed in the telling. Saying anything else would just lead to spoilers, so let me end by saying read this one.
Good read
Story is entertaining, but a bit simple. Its a short story so there wasn't a lot of effort spent in writing to engage you with the characters, as real or with real responses / actions. An interesting, thought provoking message comes through at end. Some typos, and some font(?) choices don't come through well on a Kindle Fire. Price says 5 stars no matter what, but thought I'd try to review it realistically.
A Great read
Phillip K. Dick's short story science fiction stories are from a simple idea yet provide a welcoming escape from reality and often thought provoking in the process.