Second Variety

Second Variety is a story by Philip K. Dick first published in Space Science Fiction magazine. <br> A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. Even so, the war continues among scattered remains of humanity. <br> The Western forces have recently developed claws, autonomous self-replicating robots, to fight on their side. It is one of Dick's many stories in which nuclear war has rendered the Earth's surface uninhabitable. <p>Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Philip K. Dick's works has continued to grow, and his reputation has been enhanced by an expanding body of critical appreciation. This fifth and final volume of Dick's collected works includes 25 short stories, some previously unpublished. </p>