Second Variety

Philip K. Dick

ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL The claws were bad enough in the first place--nasty, crawling little death-robots.

Philip K. Dick

[Illustration] Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong he tried to correct it.

Philip K. Dick

It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet.

Philip K. Dick

_The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools._ They had almost finished with the loading.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.