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Encyclopedia > A World of Talent

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. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction writer. ... The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein in Galaxy, Sept. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Plot

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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