{"_id":"670ce04cee87ddd5c04225c1","title":"The Defenders","author":"Phillip K. Dick","code":"the-defenders","words":8519,"publish_year":1953,"publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1953-01/page/n5/mode/2up","publish_source":"Galaxy Science Fiction","publish_edition":"Vol. 5, No. 4","image":"ruins.jpg","image_alt":"Dilapidated ruins of old buildings. Graphite Filter.","genres":["sci-fi","mystery"],"blurb":"Now the surface was a lethal desert of slag and rolling clouds. Endless clouds drifted back and forth, blotting out the red Sun. Occasionally something metallic stirred, moving through the remains of a city, threading its way across the tortured terrain of the countryside.","description":"Humanity has retreated underground to avoid the horrors of a permanent war, but strange messages are coming from the proxy war-robots running the surface.","rating":3,"unique_cover":"Drawing of two men, one looking down a long tunnel filled with large metal mortar shells.","cover_position":"right","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}