The Unteleported Man

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The Unteleported Man
Cover of first edition (paperback)
Author	Philip K. Dick
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	1966
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	100 pp
ISBN	NA

The Unteleported Man (later republished in an expanded form as Lies, Inc.) is a 1966 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, first published as a short story in 1964.

[edit] Plot summary

A new teleportation technology makes travel by spaceship redundant. A new colony, Whale's Mouth, is destination for forty million colonists, but it is a one way journey - no teleportation back to Earth is possible. The only way to return is by spaceship, an 18-year journey.

Rachmael ben Applebaum, whose spaceship business has been ruined by teleportation, decides to make the journey to Whale's Mouth in his own ship, Omphalos. Driven by visions that the utopian vision may be false, he chooses to make the trip in case a colonist may decide to return. Powerful figures oppose his journey.

Lies, Inc., the expanded version of The Unteleported Man, includes about 100 pages of new material. These new chapters focus on a drug trip that Rachmeal goes through after being hit by an LSD tipped dart. The new material begins and ends with the phrase "Acrid smoke billowed about him."

[edit] Publishing history

This particular book has an unusual publishing history compared to other novels by Dick. The story originally appeared in Fantastic Magazine in 1964. The story rights were then bought by Ace Books but Dick's subsequent revisions to bring the manuscript up to novel-length were rejected and the original story was published in 1966. Its first novel publication was as one half of Ace Double G-602, bound dos-à-dos with The Mind Monsters by Howard L. Cory.

In 1983, the full 80,000-word story was to be published, with Dick revising the material (some pages of the manuscript were missing, leading to continuity problems), however Dick died before the revision was complete (PKD died in March 1982). The original story was published, with Dick's revisions and additional material to replace the lost pages, in 1984 as Lies, Inc..

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Works of Philip K. Dick

Novels

Gather Yourselves Together · Voices from the Street · Vulcan's Hammer · Dr. Futurity · The Cosmic Puppets · Solar Lottery · Mary and the Giant · The World Jones Made · Eye in the Sky · The Man Who Japed · A Time for George Stavros · Pilgrim on the Hill · The Broken Bubble · Puttering About in a Small Land · Nicholas and the Higs · Time Out of Joint · In Milton Lumky Territory · Confessions of a Crap Artist · The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike · Humpty Dumpty in Oakland · The Man in the High Castle · We Can Build You · Martian Time-Slip · Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb · The Game-Players of Titan · The Simulacra · The Crack in Space · Now Wait for Last Year · Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? · Clans of the Alphane Moon · The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch · The Zap Gun · The Penultimate Truth · Deus Irae · The Unteleported Man · The Ganymede Takeover · Counter-Clock World · Nick and the Glimmung · Ubik · Galactic Pot-Healer · A Maze of Death · Our Friends from Frolix 8 · Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said · A Scanner Darkly · Radio Free Albemuth · VALIS · The Divine Invasion · The Transmigration of Timothy Archer · The Owl in Daylight (unfinished)

Short story collections

A Handful of Darkness (1950) · The Variable Man (1956) · The Preserving Machine (1969) · The Golden Man (1980) · The Book of Philip K. Dick (1973) · The Best of Philip K. Dick (1977) · Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities (1984) · I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (collection) (1985) · The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (1987) · Beyond Lies the Wub (1988) · The Dark Haired Girl (1989) · The Father-Thing (1989) · Second Variety (1989) · The Days of Perky Pat (1990) · The Little Black Box (1990) · The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990) · We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990) · The Minority Report (1991) · Second Variety (1991) · The Eye of the Sibyl (1992) · The Philip K. Dick Reader (1997) · Minority Report (2002) · Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick (2002) · Paycheck (2004) · Vintage PKD (2006)

Short stories

"Beyond Lies the Wub" (1952) · "The Gun" (1952) · "The Skull" (1952) · "The Little Movement" (1952) · "The Defenders" (1953) · "Mr. Spaceship" (1953) · "Piper In The Woods" (1953) · "Roog" (1953) · "The Infinities" (1953) · "Second Variety" (1953) · "The World She Wanted" (1953) · "Colony" (1953) · "The Cookie Lady" (1953) · "Impostor" (1953) · "Martians Come In Clouds" (1953) · "Paycheck" (1953) · "The Preserving Machine" (1953) · "The Cosmic Poachers" (1953) · "Expendable" (1953) · "The Indefatigable Frog" (1953) · "The Commuter" (1953) · "Out In The Garden" (1953) · "The Great C" (1953) · "The King Of The Elves" (1953) · "The Trouble with Bubbles" (1953) · "The Variable Man" (1953) · "The Impossible Planet" (1953) · "Planet for Transients" (1953) · "Some Kinds of Life" (1953) · "The Builder" (1953) · "The Hanging Stranger" (1953) · "Project: Earth" (1953) · "The Eyes Have It" (1953) · "Tony and the Beetles" (1953) · "Prize Ship" (1954) · "Beyond the Door" (1954) · "The Crystal Crypt" (1954) · "A Present for Pat" (1954) · "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" (1954) · "The Golden Man" (1954) · "James P. Crow" (1954) · "Prominent Author" (1954) · "Small Town" (1954) · "Survey Team" (1954) · "Sales Pitch" (1954) · "Time Pawn" (1954) · "Breakfast at Twilight" (1954) · "The Crawlers" (1954) · "Of Withered Apples" (1954) · "Exhibit Piece" (1954) · "Adjustment Team" (1954) · "Shell Game" (1954) · "Meddler" (1954) · "Souvenir" (1954) · "A World of Talent" (1954) · "The Last of the Masters" (1954) · "Progeny" (1954) · "Upon the Dull Earth" (1954) · "The Father-thing" (1954) · "Strange Eden" (1954) · "Jon's World" (1954) · "The Turning Wheel" (1954) · "Foster, You're Dead!" (1955) · "Human Is" (1955) · "War Veteran" (1955) · "Captive Market" (1955) · "Nanny" (1955) · "The Hood Maker" (1955) · "The Chromium Fence" (1955) · "Service Call" (1955) · "A Surface Raid" (1955) · "The Mold of Yancy" (1955) · "Autofac" (1955) · "Psi-man Heal My Child!" (1955) · "The Minority Report" (1956) · "To Serve the Master" (1956) · "Pay for the Printer" (1956) · "A Glass of Darkness" (1956) · "The Unreconstructed M" (1957) · "Misadjustment" (1957) · "Null-O" (1958) · "Explorers We" (1959) · "Recall Mechanism" (1959) · "Fair Game" (1959) · "War Game" (1959) · "All We Marsmen" (1963) · "Stand-by" (1963) · "What'll We Do with Ragland Park?" (1963) · "The Days of Perky Pat" (1963) · "If There Were No Benny Cemoli" (1963) · "Waterspider" (1964) · "Novelty Act" (1964) · "Oh, to be a Blobel!" (1964) · "The War with the Fnools" (1964) · "What the Dead Men Say" (1964) · "Orpheus with Clay Feet" (1964) · "Cantata 140" (1964) · "A Game of Unchance" (1964) · "The Little Black Box" (1964) · "Precious Artifact" (1964) · "The Unteleported Man" (1964) · "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) · "Project Plowshare" (1965) · "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966) · "Holy Quarrel" (1966) · "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday" (1966) · "Return Match" (1967) · "Faith of Our Fathers" (1967) · "Not by Its Cover" (1968) · "The Story To End All Stories" (1968) · "The Electric Ant" (1969) · "A. Lincoln, Simulacrum" (1969) · "The Pre-persons" (1974) · "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts" (1974) · "The Exit Door Leads In" (1979) · "Chains Of Air, Web Of Aethyr" (1980) · "Rautavaara's Case" (1980) · "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (1980) · "The Alien Mind" (1981) · "Strange Memories Of Death" (1984) · "Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked" (1987) · "The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out Of Its Tree" (1987) · "The Eye of the Sibyl" (1987) · "Stability" (1987) · "Goodbye, Vincent" (1988)

Film adaptations

Blade Runner (1982) · Total Recall (1990) · Confessions of a Crap Artist (1992) · Screamers (1995) · Impostor (2002) · Minority Report (2002) · Paycheck (2003) · A Scanner Darkly (2006) · Next (2007) · Radio Free Albemuth (TBA) · King of the Elves (2012)