Second Variety
Author: Philip K. Dick
Read “Second Variety” by Philip K. Dick in English, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese in Bibliott on your phone and tablet.
Languages: English, RU, Spanish, PT
Genre: Dystopian, Sci-Fi, Short story
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On a nuclear battlefield, autonomous killer robots have begun building copies that look human — and a war-weary major must reach the enemy lines without knowing who, or what, is really human.
Characters
- Major Hendricks — American officer: An American major crossing the scorched no-man's-land to parley with the Soviet lines.
- Tasso — Bunker survivor: A cold, calculating young woman surviving in the Soviet bunker.
- the claws — Killer robots: Self-replicating killer robots that have begun building copies in human shape.
- Klaus Epstein — Soviet soldier: A jumpy, suspicious Soviet soldier, one of the three left in the bunker.
- Rudi Maxer — Soviet corporal: A Soviet corporal, one of the bunker's three survivors.
- Corporal Leone — American soldier: An American corporal at Hendricks' bunker in the opening scene.