Corporal Westerburg, back from the new check-station on Asteroid Y-3, insists calmly that he is a plant. The base psychiatrist, Doctor Harris, is asked to cure the delusion, but soon the whole garrison is affected, and Harris travels out to the asteroid to find what has seduced the men into a life of standing in the sun.
An early, sly story from 1953 that already shows Dick’s fascination with what counts as real. Download the free EPUB.