Philip K. Dick Short Stories: The Gun - The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast

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Nothing moved or stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs of life ... and the trespassers had wrecked that for all time. The return journey to pick up the treasure would be a cinch ... they smiled. The Gun by Philip K. Dick, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

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Our story comes from Planet Stories magazine in September 1952. More space on the cover is devoted to author Mark Ganes and his feature story Evil Out of Onzar than any other story that appeared in the magazine. Who is Mark Ganes? I don’t know. I couldn’t find any information about him, nor could I find any other story that he’d ever written. The cover lists five of the seven authors in the issue. One of the guys who wasn’t mentioned. A relatively unknown author, at the time, named Philip K. Dick. Turn to page 46 for The Gun…

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