Beyond Lies the Wub
"Beyond Lies the Wub" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was his first published genre story, originally appearing in Planet Stories in July 1952.[1] It was first collected in The Preserving Machine in 1969, and was included in The Best of Philip K. Dick in 1977. It was the title story for the first volume of the original edition of Dick's collected stories.[2] Translations of "Beyond Lies the Wub" have appeared in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish; and the story has been included in more than a dozen anthologies.[2]
Plot
Peterson, a crew member of a spaceship loading up with food animals on
Peterson and the wub spend time discussing mythological figures and the travels of
Reception and analysis
"...Wub" was Dick's first published genre story, originally appearing in Planet Stories in July 1952.[1]
Brian M. Stableford observed that this story "already encapsulated the whimsical paranoia that characterizes almost all his work in the genre".[3] Richard Bleiler likewise concurred that the story was indicative of "the direction that his career was to take".[4]
References in other works
The theme of the Wub was revisited by Dick in his later short story "Not by Its Cover" (1968), which has been described as a "loose sequel" to the 1952 story.[5]
In The Zap Gun the image of a "Venusian wub" is used in a maze game as a creature trapped in a maze to which the player becomes telepathically and empathically connected.[citation needed]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-313-31121-8
- ^ a b "Title: Beyond Lies the Wub". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-5397-3.
- ISBN 978-0-684-80593-1.
- ISBN 978-1-4408-3833-0.
External links
- Beyond Lies the Wub title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- An omnibus collection of Dick's short fiction in the public domain, including this story at Standard Ebooks
- Beyond Lies the Wub at Project Gutenberg
- Beyond Lies the Wub public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- O'Hare, Denis, reading (December 27, 2018). "Selected Shorts" (MP3). NPR. New York City. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
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