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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at its most blatant, sort of coming off as a Philip K. Dick version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' with a downer ending [[note]]Though it happens to predate the Jack Finney novel ''The Body Snatchers'' by about a year[[/note]]: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself.

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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at its most blatant, sort of coming off as a Philip K. Dick version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' with a downer ending [[note]]Though it happens to predate the Jack Finney novel ''The Body Snatchers'' by about a year[[/note]]: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself.himself.
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* Sure, the cat scene is grotesque, but the fate of Floyd Jones in ''The World Jones Made'' is much, much worse. [[spoiler: After he dies, he gets to spend one year in agony [[AndIMustScream locked inside his decaying body.]] Which he already experienced and is now getting a rerun of thanks to his [[BlessedWithSuck strange, free-will-crushing version of precognition]].]]
* The scene in ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'' where Isidore attempts to repair the artificial cat [[spoiler: which isn't artificial!]]

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* Sure, the cat scene is grotesque, but the fate of Floyd Jones in ''The World Jones Made'' is much, much worse. [[spoiler: After he dies, he gets to spend one year in agony [[AndIMustScream locked inside his decaying body.]] Which he already experienced and is now getting a rerun of thanks to his [[BlessedWithSuck strange, free-will-crushing version of precognition]].]]
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* The scene in ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'' where Isidore attempts to repair the artificial cat [[spoiler: which isn't artificial!]]artificial!



* The whole premise of ''Colony'' which makes you wish were up against [[Film/TheThing1982 a certain other shape-shifting extra-terrestrial monstrosity]] instead. Imagine an alien on board that could replicate ''anything'' as long as it was inorganic. Basically, ''anything'' on board: something as simple as a pair of gloves can get you killed. At the end, they're told that a ship is coming to rescue them. It arrives, and they realise that the only safe way of boarding is if they leave nothing behind, because the last piece of their uniforms could be the alien -- so they all strip naked and file on board, and the door closes behind them. [[spoiler: Then the real rescue ship lands, and can't figure out where they've all gone.]]

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* The whole premise of ''Colony'' which makes you wish were up against [[Film/TheThing1982 a certain other shape-shifting extra-terrestrial monstrosity]] instead. Imagine an alien on board that could replicate ''anything'' as long as it was inorganic. Basically, ''anything'' on board: something as simple as a pair of gloves can get you killed. At the end, they're told that a ship is coming to rescue them. It arrives, and they realise that the only safe way of boarding is if they leave nothing behind, because the last piece of their uniforms could be the alien -- so they all strip naked and file on board, and the door closes behind them. [[spoiler: Then the real rescue ship lands, and can't figure out where they've all gone.]]



* "The Gun" has an intriguing premise involving a group of space explorers finding ancient alien artifacts, something complicated by the fact that the aliens in question built a giant cannon programmed to shoot down anything that flew over their airspace (including the protagonists' spaceship). The heroes manage to disable the gun and make off with a large pile of ancient artifacts which they intend to present to Earth. [[spoiler: Unknown to them, automated machines are repairing the gun and this time arming it with nuclear warheads, meaning that something very bad might happen to the next group of explorers to come]].
* The protagonist of ''Silvia Everywhere'' (also known as ''Upon The Dull Earth'') makes an arrangement with his girlfriend's not-so-imaginary-friends after she dies to bring her back to life - but it turns out they aren't quite sure what they're doing (humanity's original demiurge has long since moved on to even higher spiritual planes), and he quickly discovers that [[spoiler:''every human body everywhere'' is becoming a living Silvia as she was just as she died, in what must be next to Manga/{{Gyo}} on the scale of the most bizarre zombie apocalypses ever imagined. He is able to outrun the spreading transformation for a while, but finally he succumbs as well, and the last lines of the story describe his own thoughts as they are replaced with hers - lost, alone, oblivious, and very, very confused about what has happened.]]

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* "The Gun" has an intriguing premise involving a group of space explorers finding ancient alien artifacts, something complicated by the fact that the aliens in question built a giant cannon programmed to shoot down anything that flew over their airspace (including the protagonists' spaceship). The heroes manage to disable the gun and make off with a large pile of ancient artifacts which they intend to present to Earth. [[spoiler: Unknown to them, automated machines are repairing the gun and this time arming it with nuclear warheads, meaning that something very bad might happen to the next group of explorers to come]].
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* The protagonist of ''Silvia Everywhere'' (also known as ''Upon The Dull Earth'') makes an arrangement with his girlfriend's not-so-imaginary-friends after she dies to bring her back to life - but it turns out they aren't quite sure what they're doing (humanity's original demiurge has long since moved on to even higher spiritual planes), and he quickly discovers that [[spoiler:''every ''every human body everywhere'' is becoming a living Silvia as she was just as she died, in what must be next to Manga/{{Gyo}} on the scale of the most bizarre zombie apocalypses ever imagined. He is able to outrun the spreading transformation for a while, but finally he succumbs as well, and the last lines of the story describe his own thoughts as they are replaced with hers - lost, alone, oblivious, and very, very confused about what has happened.]]



* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at its most blatant, sort of coming off as a Philip K. Dick version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' with a downer ending [[note]]Though it happens to predate the Jack Finney novel ''The Body Snatchers'' by about a year[[/note]]: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].

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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at its most blatant, sort of coming off as a Philip K. Dick version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' with a downer ending [[note]]Though it happens to predate the Jack Finney novel ''The Body Snatchers'' by about a year[[/note]]: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].himself.
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** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into NightmareFuel Territory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from ''[[Film/TheThing1982 The Thing]]'' (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.

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** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into NightmareFuel Territory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from ''[[Film/TheThing1982 The Thing]]'' (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything. In fact, you don't even have to imagine them being together; just imagine something that's a '''combination''' of the two. That thing already exists in the realm of fiction, and is called the [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay T-1000]].
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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at it's most blatant, sort of coming off as a Philip K. Dick version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' with a downer ending [[note]]Though it happens to predate the Jack Finney novel ''The Body Snatchers'' by about a year[[/note]]: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].

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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at it's its most blatant, sort of coming off as a Philip K. Dick version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' with a downer ending [[note]]Though it happens to predate the Jack Finney novel ''The Body Snatchers'' by about a year[[/note]]: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].
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* The whole premise of ''Colony'' which makes you were up against [[Film/TheThing1982 a certain other shape-shifting extra-terrestrial monstrosity]] instead. Imagine an alien on board that could replicate ''anything'' as long as it was inorganic. Basically, ''anything'' on board, something as simple as putting on a pair of gloves can get you killed. Not to mention at the end, when they try to escape by boarding another ship in the nude, [[spoiler: except they board the wrong ship]].

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* The whole premise of ''Colony'' which makes you wish were up against [[Film/TheThing1982 a certain other shape-shifting extra-terrestrial monstrosity]] instead. Imagine an alien on board that could replicate ''anything'' as long as it was inorganic. Basically, ''anything'' on board, board: something as simple as putting on a pair of gloves can get you killed. Not to mention at At the end, when they're told that a ship is coming to rescue them. It arrives, and they try to escape by realise that the only safe way of boarding another ship in is if they leave nothing behind, because the nude, last piece of their uniforms could be the alien -- so they all strip naked and file on board, and the door closes behind them. [[spoiler: except they board Then the wrong ship]].real rescue ship lands, and can't figure out where they've all gone.]]



* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at it's most blatant, sort of coming off as a Philip K. Dick version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' with a downer ending [[note]]Though it happens to predate the Jack Finney novel ''The Body Snatchers'' by about a year[[/note]]: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].

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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at it's most blatant, sort of coming off as a Philip K. Dick version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' with a downer ending [[note]]Though it happens to predate the Jack Finney novel ''The Body Snatchers'' by about a year[[/note]]: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].
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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at it's most blatant: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].

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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at it's most blatant: blatant, sort of coming off as a Philip K. Dick version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' with a downer ending [[note]]Though it happens to predate the Jack Finney novel ''The Body Snatchers'' by about a year[[/note]]: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. They had used the body of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].
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* ''Literature/TheThreeStigmataOfPalmerEldritch'' actually scared PK Dick himself. In the early 60s, Dick had a hallucination of a supreme evil God with a metal face (a vision inspired at least partly by childhood memories of his father's stories about World War One and his gas mask). ''The Three Stigmata'' was Dick's attempt to exorcise that vision. As he wrote in 1979:

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* ''Literature/TheThreeStigmataOfPalmerEldritch'' ''The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch'' actually scared PK Dick himself. In the early 60s, Dick had a hallucination of a supreme evil God with a metal face (a vision inspired at least partly by childhood memories of his father's stories about World War One and his gas mask). ''The Three Stigmata'' was Dick's attempt to exorcise that vision. As he wrote in 1979:
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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at it's most blatant: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. The hanging body was another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].

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* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at it's most blatant: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. The hanging They had used the body was of another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].

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* The protagonist of ''Silvia Everywhere'' makes an arrangement with his girlfriend's not-so-imaginary-friends after she dies to bring her back to life - but it turns out they aren't quite sure what they're doing (humanity's original demiurge has long since moved on to even higher spiritual planes), and he quickly discovers that [[spoiler:''every human body everywhere'' is becoming a living Silvia as she was just as she died, in what must be next to Manga/{{Gyo}} on the scale of the most bizarre zombie apocalypses ever imagined. He is able to outrun the spreading transformation for a while, but finally he succumbs as well, and the last lines of the story describe his own thoughts as they are replaced with hers - lost, alone, oblivious, and very, very confused about what has happened.]]

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* The protagonist of ''Silvia Everywhere'' (also known as ''Upon The Dull Earth'') makes an arrangement with his girlfriend's not-so-imaginary-friends after she dies to bring her back to life - but it turns out they aren't quite sure what they're doing (humanity's original demiurge has long since moved on to even higher spiritual planes), and he quickly discovers that [[spoiler:''every human body everywhere'' is becoming a living Silvia as she was just as she died, in what must be next to Manga/{{Gyo}} on the scale of the most bizarre zombie apocalypses ever imagined. He is able to outrun the spreading transformation for a while, but finally he succumbs as well, and the last lines of the story describe his own thoughts as they are replaced with hers - lost, alone, oblivious, and very, very confused about what has happened.]]]]
** The way Sylvia is resurrected is pretty creepy to begin with, and sort of foreshadows the ending: The "angels" (as Silvia called them) can't bring her old body back to life or create a new one from whole cloth, so they have her take the place of her unknowing, unwilling sister Betty - transforming her body and mind into Sylvia's when neither know what's going on. Betty isn't a very sympathetic character, but what happens to her is pretty traumatic.
* ''The Hanging Stranger'' is one of his stories where the ParanoiaFuel is at it's most blatant: The main character, Ed Loyce, sees a corpse hanging from a street light one night. Everyone he points it out to treats this as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight, rationalizing that the body is supposed to be there because otherwise the proper authorities must have done something by now. He then uncovers an alien invasion plot, realizing everyone around him was brainwashed by aliens, and he leaves town hoping he can get this to the authorities before it spreads further. [[spoiler: It already has spread further, and it turns out he fell right into their trap: The hanged body was deliberately left in public so that the aliens, disguising themselves as authority figures, would quickly be able to notice anyone who they didn't brainwash yet. The hanging body was another non-brainwashed man that they had caught with the same method, and at the end of the story Ed becomes bait himself]].
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* "The Gun" has an intriguing premise involving a group of space explorers finding ancient alien artifacts, something complicated by the fact that the aliens in question built a giant cannon programmed to shoot down anything that flew over their airspace (including the protagonists' spaceship). The heroes manage to disable the gun and make off with a large pile of ancient artifacts which they intend to present to Earth. [[spoiler: Unknown to them, automated machines are repairing the gun and this time arming it with nuclear warheads, meaning that something very bad might happen to the next group of explorers to come]].

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* "The Gun" has an intriguing premise involving a group of space explorers finding ancient alien artifacts, something complicated by the fact that the aliens in question built a giant cannon programmed to shoot down anything that flew over their airspace (including the protagonists' spaceship). The heroes manage to disable the gun and make off with a large pile of ancient artifacts which they intend to present to Earth. [[spoiler: Unknown to them, automated machines are repairing the gun and this time arming it with nuclear warheads, meaning that something very bad might happen to the next group of explorers to come]].come]].
* The protagonist of ''Silvia Everywhere'' makes an arrangement with his girlfriend's not-so-imaginary-friends after she dies to bring her back to life - but it turns out they aren't quite sure what they're doing (humanity's original demiurge has long since moved on to even higher spiritual planes), and he quickly discovers that [[spoiler:''every human body everywhere'' is becoming a living Silvia as she was just as she died, in what must be next to Manga/{{Gyo}} on the scale of the most bizarre zombie apocalypses ever imagined. He is able to outrun the spreading transformation for a while, but finally he succumbs as well, and the last lines of the story describe his own thoughts as they are replaced with hers - lost, alone, oblivious, and very, very confused about what has happened.]]
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* ''What The Dead Men Say'': In short, a super-powerful businessman dies of old age but his body is frozen and hooked up to a machine designed to allow him to be temporarily revived at various intervals- just enough to hear his thoughts. The whole idea of "half-life" is a bit eerie in itself but imagine that no matter where you were on Earth or even outer space you couldn't escape from him. Every time you turn on the television you just get a picture of a distorted face and hear faint, feeble mumbling; every time you pick up the phone, you hear the same mumbling, along with... well... any other human creation (the story makes references to this taking over newspapers, [[{{Zeerust}} telegraphs]], and an "electric typewriter"- so basically a computer) that could conceivably be used to communicate information.

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* ''What The Dead Men Say'': In short, a super-powerful businessman dies of old age but his body is frozen and hooked up to a machine designed to allow him to be temporarily revived at various intervals- just enough to hear his thoughts. The whole idea of "half-life" is a bit eerie in itself but imagine that no matter where you were on Earth or even outer space you couldn't escape from him. Every time you turn on the television you just get a picture of a distorted face and hear faint, feeble mumbling; every time you pick up the phone, you hear the same mumbling, along with... well... any other human creation (the story makes references to this taking over newspapers, [[{{Zeerust}} telegraphs]], and an "electric typewriter"- so basically a computer) that could conceivably be used to communicate information.information.
* "The Gun" has an intriguing premise involving a group of space explorers finding ancient alien artifacts, something complicated by the fact that the aliens in question built a giant cannon programmed to shoot down anything that flew over their airspace (including the protagonists' spaceship). The heroes manage to disable the gun and make off with a large pile of ancient artifacts which they intend to present to Earth. [[spoiler: Unknown to them, automated machines are repairing the gun and this time arming it with nuclear warheads, meaning that something very bad might happen to the next group of explorers to come]].
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* The whole premise of ''Colony'' which makes you were up against [[TheThing1982 a certain other shape-shifting extra-terrestrial monstrosity]] instead. Imagine an alien on board that could replicate ''anything'' as long as it was inorganic. Basically, ''anything'' on board, something as simple as putting on a pair of gloves can get you killed. Not to mention at the end, when they try to escape by boarding another ship in the nude, [[spoiler: except they board the wrong ship]].
** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into NightmareFuel Territory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from [[TheThing1982 The Thing]] (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.

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* The whole premise of ''Colony'' which makes you were up against [[TheThing1982 [[Film/TheThing1982 a certain other shape-shifting extra-terrestrial monstrosity]] instead. Imagine an alien on board that could replicate ''anything'' as long as it was inorganic. Basically, ''anything'' on board, something as simple as putting on a pair of gloves can get you killed. Not to mention at the end, when they try to escape by boarding another ship in the nude, [[spoiler: except they board the wrong ship]].
** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into NightmareFuel Territory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from [[TheThing1982 ''[[Film/TheThing1982 The Thing]] Thing]]'' (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.
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--->Some reviewers found it a profound novel. I only find it frightening. I was unable to proofread the galleys because the novel frightened me so.

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** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into HighOctaneNightmareFuel Territory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from [[TheThing1982 The Thing]] (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.

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** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into HighOctaneNightmareFuel NightmareFuel Territory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from [[TheThing1982 The Thing]] (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.
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* ''What The Dead Men Say'': In short, a super-powerful businessman dies of old age but his body is frozen and hooked up to a machine designed to allow him to be temporarily revived at various intervals- just enough to hear his thoughts. The whole idea of "half-life" is a bit eerie in itself but imagine that no matter where you were on Earth or even outer space you couldn't escape from him. Every time you turn on the television you just get a picture of a distorted face and hear faint, feeble mumbling; every time you pick up the phone, you hear the same mumbling, along with... well... any other human creation that could conceivably be used to communicate information.

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* ''What The Dead Men Say'': In short, a super-powerful businessman dies of old age but his body is frozen and hooked up to a machine designed to allow him to be temporarily revived at various intervals- just enough to hear his thoughts. The whole idea of "half-life" is a bit eerie in itself but imagine that no matter where you were on Earth or even outer space you couldn't escape from him. Every time you turn on the television you just get a picture of a distorted face and hear faint, feeble mumbling; every time you pick up the phone, you hear the same mumbling, along with... well... any other human creation (the story makes references to this taking over newspapers, [[{{Zeerust}} telegraphs]], and an "electric typewriter"- so basically a computer) that could conceivably be used to communicate information.
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** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into HighOctaneNightmareFuel Territory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from [[TheThing1982 The Thing]] (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.

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** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into HighOctaneNightmareFuel Territory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from [[TheThing1982 The Thing]] (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.everything.
* ''What The Dead Men Say'': In short, a super-powerful businessman dies of old age but his body is frozen and hooked up to a machine designed to allow him to be temporarily revived at various intervals- just enough to hear his thoughts. The whole idea of "half-life" is a bit eerie in itself but imagine that no matter where you were on Earth or even outer space you couldn't escape from him. Every time you turn on the television you just get a picture of a distorted face and hear faint, feeble mumbling; every time you pick up the phone, you hear the same mumbling, along with... well... any other human creation that could conceivably be used to communicate information.
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* The whole premise of ''Colony'' which makes you were up against [[TheThing1982 a certain shape-shifting extra-terrestrial monstrosity instead]] instead. Imagine an alien on board that could replicate ''anything'' as long as it was inorganic. Basically, ''anything'' on board, something as simple as putting on a pair of gloves can get you killed. Not to mention at the end, when they try to escape by boarding another ship in the nude, [[spoiler: except they board the wrong ship]].
** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into HighOctaneNightmareFuelTerritory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from [[TheThing1982 The Thing]] (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.

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* The whole premise of ''Colony'' which makes you were up against [[TheThing1982 a certain other shape-shifting extra-terrestrial monstrosity instead]] monstrosity]] instead. Imagine an alien on board that could replicate ''anything'' as long as it was inorganic. Basically, ''anything'' on board, something as simple as putting on a pair of gloves can get you killed. Not to mention at the end, when they try to escape by boarding another ship in the nude, [[spoiler: except they board the wrong ship]].
** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into HighOctaneNightmareFuelTerritory, HighOctaneNightmareFuel Territory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from [[TheThing1982 The Thing]] (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.
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--->Some reviewers found it a profound novel. I only find it frightening. I was unable to proofread the galleys because the novel frightened me so.

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--->Some reviewers found it a profound novel. I only find it frightening. I was unable to proofread the galleys because the novel frightened me so.so.
* The whole premise of ''Colony'' which makes you were up against [[TheThing1982 a certain shape-shifting extra-terrestrial monstrosity instead]] instead. Imagine an alien on board that could replicate ''anything'' as long as it was inorganic. Basically, ''anything'' on board, something as simple as putting on a pair of gloves can get you killed. Not to mention at the end, when they try to escape by boarding another ship in the nude, [[spoiler: except they board the wrong ship]].
** Furthermore, if you really want to take this whole concept into HighOctaneNightmareFuelTerritory, the creature they dealt with here isn't a whole lot different from [[TheThing1982 The Thing]] (outside of the fact that one can only imitate life forms and the other can only copy non-living things). Now imagine the two of them being together. That's right, you'd have to be paranoid of everyone and everything.
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my God! I\'d be afraid of an alive and conscious kitchen, too!


* There is a scene in Philip K. Dick's ''Eye in the Sky'' where a woman enters her kitchen but discovers that her cat has been turned inside out, making him into little more than a mass of pink flesh blindly creeping around the kitchen... which is ''still alive and conscious''.

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* There is a scene in Philip K. Dick's ''Eye in the Sky'' where a woman enters her kitchen but discovers that her cat has been turned inside out, making him into little more than a mass of pink flesh blindly creeping around the kitchen... which and it is ''still alive and conscious''.
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** ''Literature/TheThreeStigmataOfPalmerEldritch'' actually scared PK Dick himself. In the early 60s, Dick had a hallucination of a supreme evil God with a metal face (a vision inspired at least partly by childhood memories of his father's stories about World War One and his gas mask). ''The Three Stigmata'' was Dick's attempt to exorcise that vision. As he wrote in 1979:

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** * ''Literature/TheThreeStigmataOfPalmerEldritch'' actually scared PK Dick himself. In the early 60s, Dick had a hallucination of a supreme evil God with a metal face (a vision inspired at least partly by childhood memories of his father's stories about World War One and his gas mask). ''The Three Stigmata'' was Dick's attempt to exorcise that vision. As he wrote in 1979:
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* There is a scene in Philip K. Dick's ''Eye in the Sky'' where a woman enters her kitchen but discovers that her cat has been turned inside out, making him into little more than a mass of pink flesh blindly creeping around the kitchen... which is ''still alive and conscious''.
* Sure, the cat scene is grotesque, but the fate of Floyd Jones in ''The World Jones Made'' is much, much worse. [[spoiler: After he dies, he gets to spend one year in agony [[AndIMustScream locked inside his decaying body.]] Which he already experienced and is now getting a rerun of thanks to his [[BlessedWithSuck strange, free-will-crushing version of precognition]].]]
* The scene in ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'' where Isidore attempts to repair the artificial cat [[spoiler: which isn't artificial!]]
** ''Literature/TheThreeStigmataOfPalmerEldritch'' actually scared PK Dick himself. In the early 60s, Dick had a hallucination of a supreme evil God with a metal face (a vision inspired at least partly by childhood memories of his father's stories about World War One and his gas mask). ''The Three Stigmata'' was Dick's attempt to exorcise that vision. As he wrote in 1979:
--->Some reviewers found it a profound novel. I only find it frightening. I was unable to proofread the galleys because the novel frightened me so.

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