{"_id":"696a0306bc0b36e07027f171","title":"The Gun","author":"Phillip K. Dick","code":"the-gun","publish_year":1952,"publish_source":"Planet Stories","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_v05n08_1952-09/page/n47/mode/2up","words":4760,"image":"planet.jpg","image_alt":"A planet. graphite filter","genres":["sci-fi","adventure"],"description":"A space team finds a planet with no signs of life but an inconvenient gun that still operates.","blurb":"“I’ve seen ruined cities before but they died of old age, old age and fatigue. This was killed, seared to death. This city didn’t die—it was murdered.”","unique_cover":"A giant gun on a planet with astronauts walking towards it.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}