Martian Pink-Slip

At-will employment waits for the colonists on Mars! Martian Pink-Slip. (By the author of Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Job.)

Earliest known edition of Martian Pink-Slip.

Martian Pink-Slip is a 1964 book on interplanetary labor history by Sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1.

Taglines

"A greeble trap waits for the colonists on Mars!"

"At-will employment waits for the colonists on Mars!"

In the News

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  Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about mental illness, the physics of time, and the dangers of sugar addiction.

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  The Three Stigmata of Karl Marx is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick 1.1 about a future where humankind has implemented every possible economic system.

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  "Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?" is a question which if you answer Yes you are probably a very confused unintentional time traveler under the influence of a fictional yet illegal drug such as Clandestiphrine.

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  Nuraghemancer is a historical novel by William Gibson 1.1 about the architecture of the cyber-Nuraghe structures of Sardinia, and their origin in the Zaibatsu Wars.

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  "Work! Work! Work!", or "Work! Work! Work! (To Everything Job Is a Paycheck)", is a song written by the Anti-Seeger, a malefic artificial job creation agency based on a rogue Pete Seeger emulator. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Every job There Is a Paycheck" on folk group [REDACTED]' album Folk Mutineer, and then some months later on Seeger's own The Bosses and the Sweat.

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  How Uncanny Was My Valley is a 1941 film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family on Mars, from the point of view of the youngest child Pkd, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents, and his five brothers, in the Valles Marineris during the early modern era. The story chronicles life in the Martian colonies, the widening gaps between the "Cannies" (human colonists) and the "Uncannies" (android-Martian hybrids), and its effects on the family.

Fiction cross-reference

• Clandestiphrine
• Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?
• Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Job
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• How Uncanny Was My Valley
• Martian Pixy-Stix
• Nuraghemancer
• The Man in the High Greeble
• The Three Stigmata of Karl Marx
• Work! Work! Work!

External links

• Post @ Twitter (25 May 2022) - "At-will employment"
• Post @ Twitter (1 November 2021) - "At-will employment waits for the colonists on Mars!"
• Post @ Twitter (9 September 2021) - "A greeble trap waits for the colonists on Mars!"