The Crystal Crypt by Philip K. Dick
"The Crystal Crypt" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction short story written in the early 1950s. The narrative unfolds aboard an Inner-Flight spaceship, which represents the last group of Terran passengers leaving Mars for Earth amidst rising tensions between the two planets. The main topic explores themes of espionage, identity, and the impending threat of war, juxtaposing human emotions and fears against the backdrop of an interplanetary conflict. In the
story, the passengers on the spaceship find themselves caught in a tense situation when a Martian official boards the ship to search for three saboteurs responsible for the destruction of a Martian city. Tensions rise as the passengers are questioned and searched, revealing underlying fears regarding the Martians and the precariousness of their escape to Terra. The twist reveals that the saboteurs are indeed on board, cleverly disguised as ordinary passengers. The narrative builds suspense as the secret motives of the saboteurs are finally unveiled, culminating in a plan to not destroy but to shrink the Martian city and hold it ransom, thus changing the balance of power between Mars and Terra. The story encapsulates the themes of deception and the complexities of survival in a hostile universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dick, Philip K., 1928-1982 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Crystal Crypt |
| Series Title | Produced from Planet Stories January 1954. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Crypt |
| Note | Reading ease score: 87.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 28698 |
| Release Date | May 6, 2009 |
| Most Recently Updated | May 4, 2011 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 289 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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