Loading animals on Mars for the long haul home, Captain Franco’s crew buys a wub, a huge, slovenly, pig-like creature, meaning to eat it on the voyage. Then the wub begins to speak, mildly and politely, about philosophy and Odysseus, and the question of who is dinner becomes far less simple than the captain supposes.
Philip K. Dick’s first published story, a short, sly fable already full of his questions about identity. Download the free EPUB.