{"_id":"66fca3040351ced17641ce64","title":"Second Variety","author":"Phillip K. Dick","code":"second-variety","words":15168,"publish_year":1953,"publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Space_Science_Fiction_v01n06_1953-05_UnkSc-cape1736/page/n103/mode/2up","publish_source":"Space Science Fiction","publish_edition":"Vol. 1, No. 6","image":"clockwork.jpg","image_alt":"Shiny gears and other clockwork. Graphite filter.","genres":["sci-fi","adventure","war","mystery"],"description":"The UN are winning the war against the Soviets thanks to an innovative weapon, but Major Hendricks wonders whether it ever ought to have been invented at all.","blurb":"They were not machines. They were living  things, spinning, creeping, shaking themselves up suddenly from the gray ash and darting toward a man, climbing up him, rushing for his throat. And that was what they had been designed to do. Their job.","rating":4,"unique_cover":"A man holds a severed but smiling head which has large and small coils sprouting from the neck.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}