The Misplaced Battleship

A spaceship crew buys a fat, pig-like creature on Mars for dinner, then discovers it can talk and think. Philip K. Dick's very first published story, from 1952.

Philip K. Dick

Archaeologists on Mars try to read the language of a dead civilization with nothing to translate it from, until they find the one text every intelligent species shares. A 1957 classic about science and discovery.

H. Beam Piper

To beat an alien enemy, engineers wire a living human brain into a warship, and the brain has plans of its own. A 1953 Philip K. Dick story about minds, machines and escape.

Philip K. Dick

The last ship leaving Mars before war breaks out carries three passengers with a secret: an entire Martian city shrunk inside a glass globe. A 1954 Philip K. Dick heist in space.

Philip K. Dick