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A review by tome15
Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick
4.0
Dick, Philip K. Mr. Spaceship. 1953.
This early short story from PKD has been published all over the place. I read it most recently as a standalone e-book. An aged professor’s brain has been transplanted into a spaceship to help fight an interstellar war against the (I’m not kidding about the name) Yuks. But he has his own ideas. Two things I just realized this time around—(1) that PKD beat Anne McCaffrey’s Ship Who series to the punch by eight years, and (2) that PKD, even at this early stage in his career was having fun with the censors. They need the professor’s brain because the old Johnson drive was inadequate as a tactician. I totally missed that in my innocent youth.
This early short story from PKD has been published all over the place. I read it most recently as a standalone e-book. An aged professor’s brain has been transplanted into a spaceship to help fight an interstellar war against the (I’m not kidding about the name) Yuks. But he has his own ideas. Two things I just realized this time around—(1) that PKD beat Anne McCaffrey’s Ship Who series to the punch by eight years, and (2) that PKD, even at this early stage in his career was having fun with the censors. They need the professor’s brain because the old Johnson drive was inadequate as a tactician. I totally missed that in my innocent youth.