Second Variety: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Second Variety, credited to Philip K. Dick, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick. Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012). Early victories by the USSR in a global nuclear war cause the United Nations government to retreat to the moon leaving behind troops and fierce autonomous robots called “Claws”, which reproduce and redesign themselves in unmanned subterranean factories. After six bloody years of conflict the Soviets call for an urgent conference and UN Major Joseph Hendricks sets out to meet them. Along the way he will discover what the Claws have been up to, and it isn’t good… - Second Variety was first published in the May 1953 edition of Space Science Fiction Magazine. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Second Variety
• Author credits: Philip K. Dick
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 1:43:31

Catalogue topics

• science fiction
• dick

Track guide

1. 1 - Second Variety — 55:06
2. 2 - Second Variety — 48:27

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