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.)

Martian Pink-Slip is a short history of interplanetary labor law by sociologist Philip K. Dick, author of Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Job.

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

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

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  Flow My Androids, The Shepherd Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick about a futuristic dystopia where the United States has become a police state reality television series. The story follows genetically enhanced police officer Felix Buckman, who wakes up in a world where he has never existed.

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  Galactic Tax-Healer is a study of the history of tax policies by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.

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  The Man in the High-Rise Castle is an alternative history novel by Philip K. Dick and J. G. Ballard.

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  Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 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 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 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
• Philip K. Dick Festival
• 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
• Flow My Androids, The Shepherd Said
• Galactic Tax-Healer
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• How Uncanny Was My Valley
• Martian Pixy-Stix
• Nuraghemancer
• The Man in the High Greeble
• The Man in the High-Rise Castle
• The Three Stigmata of Karl Marx
• Work! Work! Work!

External links

• Philip K. Dick @ Wikipedia
• Philip K. Dick bibliography @ Wikipedia
• Philip K. Dick speech in Metz, France, 1977 @ YouTube
• Philip K Dick speech (interpreter edited out) in Metz, France, 1977 @ YouTube

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