The Variable Man (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Variable Man (Version 2), 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 The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick. Read in English by Phil Chenevert Philip K. Dick wrote some great Science Fiction and here is an example. Published in 1953, in Space Science Fiction, t his story explores an earth that is rigidly bound both by centuries of single minded focus on war, and on what happens when humans have learned to depend entirely on a mechanical calculator/computer to tell them what to do. There is no room for a factor outside known factors, something to throw all calculations off. A man from the past. He fixed things—clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in the future, where the calculators could not handle him. He was Earth’s only hope—and its sure failure! - Summary by author and phil chenevert

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Variable Man (Version 2)
• Author credits: Philip K. Dick
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 3:06:01

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1 — 31:16
2. 02 - Part 2 — 40:40
3. 03 - Part 3 — 42:30
4. 04 - Part 4 — 1:11:35

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