The Golden Man is a 1954 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. The story is set in some post-apocalyptic future, where the existence of potentially powerful mutants has become a reality. The mutants are seen as dangerous and have been hunted to death by human beings for years. A golden-skinned mutant called Cris is captured by the government, which attempts to execute him. However, his appearance and abilities to see into the future allow him to escape. The obvious message at the end is that this golden mutant race will replace humanity. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often known by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... 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...

Dick wrote the story during a time when mutants were being depicted in science fiction as benign and in charge - the future leaders of our species. Dick said in an interview in 1979: This page refers to the year 1979. ...

"I intended to show that (1) the mutant might not be good, at least good for the rest of mankind, for us ordinaries; and (2) not in charge but sniping at us as a bandit would, a feral mutant who potentially would do us more harm than good".

This view was loathed by John W. Campbell, the editor of Analog, and he refused to publish the story. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Astounding Stories was a seminal science fiction magazine founded in 1930. ...

The story first appeared in If magazine, April 1954. if, subtitled Worlds of Science Fiction, was launched in March 1952, the creation, apparently, of James L. Quinn of the Quinn Publishing Company, not to be confused with Robert Guinn, who later published both If and its sister magazine Galaxy. ...

A movie based on this story is said to be in pre-production, to be released on 2007. The movie will be directed by Lee Tamahori, with Nicolas Cage as Cris and Julianne Moore as the woman Cris knows will bear his child. The movie will use the title Next. 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lee Tamahori, born 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand, is best known as a film director although he got his start as a commercial artist and photographer in the late 1970s. ... The Weather Man movie poster Nicolas Cage (born January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Julianne Moore Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith on December 3, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina) is a American actress - her father is American, her mother Scottish. ... Next is a 2006 science fiction thriller film, directed by Lee Tamahori. ...