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A World of Talent is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, October 1954. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
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Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 â March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction writer. ...
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1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The story is set on a separatist Earth colony where the society is becoming dominated by mutants with psionic abilities. The colony is protected from Earth by an enormously powerful, but infantile, mutant called Big Noodle. The central character is a precog, Cris Purcell, who uncovers the existence of 'anti-psi's' - humans who are immune to interference by psionic mutants. He attempts to get the still human led government to officially declare the anti-psi, knowing that this could balance out the corrupting power that the psi's will soon possess over the rest of humanity. However, he is thwarted by the powerful psi Corps of mutants, who murder his anti-psi lover, Pat. Cris has a son, Tim, who though seemingly a 'normal', is actually the ultimate precog, possessed of the ability to travel in time. In the end, Tim appears to his father from the future, telling him that he was right about the need to balance the power of the psi's. This article is concerns biological mutants; for fictional aspects see Mutant (fictional) A mutant is an individual, organism, or new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is a sudden structural change within the DNA of a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the...
Precognition is a form of extra-sensory perception which allows a percipient to perceive information about future places or events before they happen (as opposed to merely predicting them based on deductive reasoning and current knowledge). ...
Notes - Dick very much disliked the insistence of people like John W. Campbell, that stories should positively portray psionics (beings with extrasensory powers as telepathy, telekinesis and precognition). This story was one of his replies, showing the price of these talents, and the distorted personalities that could result - chiefly through the perspective of a withdrawn little boy.
- The character of Tim is a precursor to Manfred Steiner, a character in Dicks's 1964 novel, Martian Time-Slip.
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// Telepathy (from the Greek Ïηλε, tele, distant; and Ïάθεια, patheia, feeling) is the communication of information from one mind to another by means other than the known perceptual senses. ...
Psychokinesis (literally mind-movement) or PK is the more commonly used term today for what in the past was known as telekinesis (literally distant-movement). It refers to the psi ability to influence the behavior of matter by mental intention (or possibly some other aspect of mental activity) alone. ...
Precognition is a form of extra-sensory perception. ...
1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
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Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 â March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction writer. ...
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Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 â March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction writer. ...
Roog was the first short story ever sold by author Philip K. Dick. ...
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The Defenders is a 1953 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
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Strange Eden is a 1954 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
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Shell Game is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
Upon the Dull Earth is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
Foster, Youre Dead is a 1955 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
Pay for the Printer is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
War Veteran is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
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Waterspider is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
What the Dead Men Say is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
The Days of Perky Pat is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
Whatll We Do With Ragland Park? is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
The War with the Fnools is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. ...
The Unteleported Man is a 1964 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. ...
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