Philip K Dick Audiobook Short Story: Human Is Short Sci Fi Story From the 1950s 🎧

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This is the 4th short sci-fi story by Philip K. Dick we’ve featured on our podcast. You can find Sales Pitch in episode 16, The Eyes Have It in episode 11 and The Hanging Stranger in episode 1.

Human Is first appeared in the Winter 1955 edition of Startling Stories magazine. If you wanted to pick up a copy you should check out AbeBooks.com which has several copies ranging in price from $15 to $57.50. Let’s turn to page 67 for Human Is by Philip K. Dick…

Jill Herrick's blue eyes filled with tears. She gazed at her husband in unspeakable horror. "You're — you're hideous!" she wailed.

Lester Herrick continued working, arranging heaps of notes and graphs in precise piles. "Hideous," he stated, "is a value judgment. It contains no factual information." He sent a report
tape on Centauran parasitic life whizzing through the desk scanner. "Merely an opinion. An expression of emotion, nothing more."

Jill stumbled back to the kitchen. Listlessly, she waved her hand to trip the stove into activity. Conveyor belts in the wall hummed to life, hurrying the food from the underground storage lockers for the evening meal.

She turned to face her husband one last time. "Not even a little while?" she begged. "Not even —"

"Not even for a month. When he comes you can tell him. If you haven't the courage, I'll do it. I can't have a child running around here. I have too much work to do. This report on Betelgeuse XI is due in ten days." Lester dropped a spool on Fomalhautan fossil implements into the scanner. "What's the matter with your brother? Why can't he take care of his own child?"

Jill dabbed at swollen eyes. "Don't you understand? I want Gus here! I begged Frank to let
him come. And now you —"

"I'll be glad when he's old enough to be turned over to the Government." Lester's thin face twisted in annoyance. "Damn it, Jill, isn't dinner ready yet? It's been ten minutes! What's wrong with that stove?"

"It's almost ready." The stove showed a red signal light. The robant waiter had come out of the wall and was waiting expectantly to take the food...

Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast… Snaring both Earthmen in a mind-web was easy for the mutant telepath. But once you've caught your prey—how do you get rid of them?

That’s next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

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