Philip K. Dick: Fallout

Fictional

Jason Weiser

Arts, History, Books

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It's the 2010s and nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union has forced humanity into bunkers, scorching the planet and leaving only the Leadys, the semi-sentient robot fighters, to continue to wage the war above against other Leadys.

The humans below, however, think that their Leadys might have other motives...

Adapted from "The Defenders" by Philip K. Dick.

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0:00.0	As she wrote to the surface, Taylor could only think that she was lucky to be alive.
0:20.5	Well, not the surface.
0:22.4	No one went to the surface anymore.
0:25.0	No one but the leddies, eight years, eight years underground.
0:30.2	She thought back to breakfast.
0:32.5	Her husband nearly had a heart attack when she told him that she was going to the first
0:36.6	stage, almost a mile up.
0:39.3	The first stage was as close as any of them got to the surface.
0:42.6	They were encased in feet of lead, with only a small tube leading up to what was once
0:48.2	earth.
0:49.2	We lost San Francisco.
0:51.2	Her husband had said, barely touching his rehydrated eggs.
0:55.3	She was about to laugh.
0:57.4	We, what were his doodles defending the Golden Gate Bridge?
1:01.9	But she saw his shoulder slump.
1:04.5	Him stare at the food.
1:07.0	Food that they were lucky to have.
1:09.4	Tears started to well.
1:11.2	She knew he always wanted to see the redwoods.
1:14.2	It had been something they talked about almost a decade ago in the sunlight.
1:19.2	Under the hard glare of the silos, Flores and Bulbs.
1:23.3	He had been to the movies.
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