Autofac (Short Story) - Philip K Dick - 1955 - (R1) - PDF

Autofac is a 1955 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in Galaxy.

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Original source: HhesV1H7_Phillip K Dick 47 eBooks.rar Site: The Pirate Bay Type: Torrent

Corrections to original source text (page numbers refer to PDF) : p2 changed off to of (He swept up one off the cartons and ripped it open) p5 offence changed to of fence (The factory, of course, had immediately reconstructed a better type offence) p6 changed Fizzled to Pizzled p18 changed safely to safety (It raced noisily toward the factory, clanking and rattling, trying in a last futile attempt to reach safely)

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quasi-(human) adj. 1. resembling in some degree.

hamstrung (hamstring) tr.v. 1. to make ineffective or powerless. 2. to cripple by cutting the leg tendons.

scuttled tr.v. 1. to run or move with short hurried movements.

inexorable adj. 1. unalterable; unyielding.

anterior adj. 1. situated before or toward the front. 2. situated near or toward the head.

gunned v.tr. 1. to open the throttle of (an engine) so as to accelerate. pillbox n. 1. a low-roofed concrete emplacement for a machine gune or antitank gun

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entropy n. 1. a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder, that is a property of the system's state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system; broadly : the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system. 2 . the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity b : a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder. 3. chaos, disorganization, randomness.

rent n. 1. an opening made by rending, a rip.