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[The Unteleported Man][1] (later republished in a greatly expanded version as Lies, Inc.) is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published as a novella in 1964. It is about a future in which a one-way teleportation technology enables 40 million people to immigrate to a colony named Whale's Mouth on an Earth-like planet, which advertisements show as a lush green utopia. When the owner of a failing spaceship travel firm tries to take the 18-year flight to the colony to bring back any unhappy colonists, powerful forces try to stop him from finding out the truth.…
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Editions
8 editions- Audiobook · English · 2011Brilliance Audio · 9781455814381
- Hardcover · English · 1984Gollancz · 199 pages · 9780575034495
- Other · English · 2015Brilliance Audio · 9781501289576
- Other · English · 2014Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 240 pages · 9780575133105
- Other · English · 2011Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 210 pages · 9780547601212
- Other · English · 2011Mariner Books · 225 pages · 9780547572567
Space shipsSpace coloniesInterplanetary voyagesFictionFiction, science fiction, space operaFiction, science fiction, generalFiction, general
