The Defenders

Synopsis

The Defenders is a short story written by American science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick, who later expanded this as a novel. The Defenders narrates how the war robots deviate from the very purpose of their creation and change the war hungry humans to move towards peace.

Nuclear war is fought between United States and the Soviet Union for the past eight years. Both countries create giant bunkers underground and sheltered inside safely, while the fighting continued in the destroyed surface with the help of “leadys”, which are radioactivity-immune robots. The progress of the war is transmitted by the robots only as the battle field is too harmful for humans to visit.

A war planner, Taylor has been assigned to interrogate the leadys, which were trying their best to avoid humans visit the battlefield. Taylor and team bypass the leadys and witness the surface. To their surface the weapons of both sides were destroyed by the robots, and all robots were busy in rebuilding the destroyed surface and sending fabricated photographs to the humans to fool them. The story end up in a good note of leadys convinces the human to stop war and get along in a peaceful world.

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