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Hello and welcome to books and nachos, the Venganza Media podcast about all things publishing.

My name is Stuart in L.A., and I'm on part four of our nine-part series on Philip K. Dick.

The literary adaptations that spawned nine movies,

now being reviewed at NowPlayingpodcast.com. Thanks for joining me. Now, I hope you all read

Imposter. It's only 15 pages. If you haven't, you got to stop this podcast and just do it. I'm not

going to be better than Philip K. Dick at telling this

story. And I got to say, this is a good one. I really did enjoy this one. So stop me now, read the

story, and then we can talk about it. All right. Spencer Olam is our main character. And he is

a workaday Joe. Yes, he's working on the project, which is, I suppose, a version of the H-bomb. The world is at war with

Alva Centauri, and we've protected ourselves. Westinghouse has erected a bubble around the major

cities and around the planet to protect ourselves from these needle ships that keep coming from

Alphus and Tori and trying to destroy us, we're working on a

retaliation. But this guy just wants to go on vacation. In the first couple paragraphs, we

established the fact that Spencer Olam, although he may be in a futuristic time fighting aliens,

is your average guy who has a wife of kids, suburbs, the whole 1950s suburban American dream.

How horrifying it must be then to be picked up to go to work by his buddy Nelson

and to be joined by a military figure named Major Peters who puts a gun in his ribs and tells him,

you're coming with us, we're going to have to

dismantle you. You aren't real. You are a Alpha Centauri weapon disguised as Spencer Olham. Come to Earth

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