The Crystal Crypt & Beyond The Door

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If you’re looking for well-written science fiction tales from the golden age of sci-fi, The Crystal Crypt and Beyond the Door, as well as most of Phillip K. Dick’s stories will definitely be worth a closer look. These two tales have been written by the illustrious author around 1954, and their storylines, inventive use of technology and rich worlds have fascinated readers from that era and many decades later.

The Crystal Crypt is a fascinating interplanetary tale that presents us with a faraway future in which Mars and Earth are on the verge of war. Only a small group of saboteurs who are believed to have destroyed an entire Martian city may have the key to turning the tides of the war before everything escalates to the point of no return.

Beyond the Door is another one of Phillip K. Dick’s highly intriguing science fiction gems. It is a story based on the intriguing circumstances around the purchase of a cuckoo clock. When Larry Thomas ends up buying said clock as a gift for his wife Doris, he doesn’t expect story to lead him on a dark and misty path where only the cuckoo might know what the ultimate outcome will be.

You may find it interesting to know that both stories were initially published in 1954, but while The Crystal Crypt brought the author recognition through the January edition of Planet Stories, Beyond the Door was publish the very same month in a slightly lesser known science fiction magazine known as Fantastic Universe.

Modern readers will find a dynamic blend of science, a rich narrative and a highly original use of science and technology that will leave you wishing the author further developed his stories into novels. However, Philip K. Dick does an excellent work in producing high quality sci-fi nonetheless, and his stories will likely make you want to find and read all his other published work as soon as possible.
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