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Dick, Philip K.
WE CAN BUILD YOU
book-date: 1972
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Vintage
1994

Trade paperback
Design: Heidi North
$10.00
near-Fine

This looks unread, with light wear to front cover (won't show in scans.)

Serialized in Amazing November 1969 & January 1970 as "A. LINCOLN, SIMULACRUM." That version had the ending changed by the editor - all(?) book editions have Dick's intended ending.

Beginning as manufacturers of electronic mood organs and player pianos, MASA Ascociates improved the line - they started building exact simulacra of famous men. They ran into trouble - an exactly programmed reconstruction of a famous man is going to be obstinate and as character-complex as the real man was, and nobody's puppet. Next they got involved with a project for settling the Moon with their creations. And finally they got tangled up with their own personal identities…






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