Mr. Spaceship

Synopsis

Mr. Spaceship is a science fiction story written by Philip K. Dick, an American author and who had influential works on science fiction genre with his popular novel and short stories such as The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly, Second Variety, The Variable Man, The Defenders, The Skull and The Crystal Crypt.

In a distant future war broke up with human race and an alien race called Yuks. Yuks use life-form weapons which cannot be combated by human race. Philip Kramer had been assigned to find a solution to this problem, and a space ship has been designed to be controlled by human brain. Philip’s professor on his deathbed volunteer to donate his brain to be used in the space ship.

When their new invention started operating, the ship was beyond Philip’s control as the professor’s brain taken the control over human race. To avoid the damages Philip flee the space ship out of space orbit. After few days, the space ship returns to earth and kidnap Philip and his family. While they were traveling on board, received a message from the professor’s brain that Earth is no more a safe place to live and they have been taken to a new planet where they can start a fresh colonize.

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