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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
A young woman “channels” the heavenly host, extra-dimensional visitors who have the ability to destroy any human who draws too close to their celestial energy. When the suicidal heroine allows the soul-hungry angels to suck her into their world, the protagonist plots to resurrect her. His amateurish attempts at love-sick necromancy go disastrously wrong, in a apocalyptic denouement that would give H.P. Lovecraft the creeps.
Originally published in Beyond Fantasy Fiction #9, 1954.
Reprinted in:
- The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. Three: The Father Thing, 1987
- Fine Frights, ed. Ramsey Campbell, Tor 1988
- The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3: Second Variety, 1991
- Angels!, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Ace, 1995
- The Philip K. Dick Reader, Carol Publishing Group/Citadel Twilight, 1997
Original title: Upon the Dull Earth
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Father-Thing, the: The Collected Stories Volume 3 (1987) [Collection]
Author: Philip K. Dick
Second Variety: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3 (1991) [Collection]
Author: Philip K. Dick
Angels! (1995) [Anthology]
Authors: Roger Zelazny
, Philip K. Dick
, Pat Cadigan
, Robert Silverberg
, Esther M. Friesner
, Jane Yolen
, Lisa Goldstein
, Kate Wilhelm
, Robert Sampson
, Bruce McAllister
, Jamil Nasir
, Richard Kearns
, Bruce Boston
, Geoffrey A. Landis
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