The Skull

Synopsis

The Skull is a time travel short story written by the well known science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, remembered for his numerous short stories and novels such as The Man in the High Castle, Second Variety, The Broken Bubble, and Confessions of a Crap Artist.

The skull narrates the story of the protagonist Conger, who is imprisoned now has been given an option to bailout on a mission of killing a man by traveling back in time. The targeted person’s skull is given for identification, with a note stating he would change the world for next few hundred years by his new religious movement. While Conger waits for the arrival, he was shocked to witness that the skull was his own and he had been asked to kill him. However he realizes that even though his death will not be and end, as another version of him will reappear.

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