The war with the Ganymedeans has been going on for two months, and Terra has been unable to use the launch cradles at Ganymede to send space ships to its colonies at Proxima Centauri. The colonists at Proxima Centauri are slowly starving, and Terra is about to capitulate to the Ganymedeans' demands.
As a vote to capitulate is being taken in the Senate, an urgent message arrives; a new type of Ganymedean ship has been captured! General Groves, Commander Carmichel, Major Siller, and Dr. Basset volunteer to take it for a test flight to discover its secrets.
"Prize Ship" appeared in "Thrilling Wonder Stories," Winter 1954, pages 89 - 101.
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories. His fiction explored philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against elements such as alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness.
Dick's influence has been widespread, extending into Hollywood filmmaking. Popular films based on his works include Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (1990 and 2012), Screamers (1995), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and Radio Free Albemuth (2010). In 2015, The Man in the High Castle (1962) was a dapted into a multi-season television series, based on Dick's 1962 novel; and in 2017 Channel 4 produced the anthology series Electric Dreams, based on various Dick stories.
In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer included in The Library of America series.
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