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Related to material in If There Were No Benny Cemoli
by Philip K. Dick

"They brought the peace of the stars to ruined Earth ... but Earth had never asked for it!"

('If There Were No Benny Cemoli' by Philip K. Dick)

Outstanding story takes place after the Misadventure (aka, atomic war) on Earth. Representatives of human civilization on other planets come to Earth to understand what happened. A difficult task in any PKD story. Also, it appears that this story was first copyrighted in 1953 (according to a first edition copy of the 1969 Dick collection The Preserving Machine.)

Science fiction in the News articles describe real-world events that relate to the ideas and inventions in sf novels and movies. Select a news article:

Computational Journalism The Homeostatic Newspaper
   Philip K. Dick has already plumbed the depths of what computers can do for us in creating (and peddling) the news.

Narrative Science And Phil Dick's Homeostatic Newspaper
   'The structure... was once a great homeostatic newspaper, the New York Times.'

China Now Has Robot Journalists
   'A vast complex electronic organism buried deep in the ground, responsible to no one...' - Philip K. Dick, 1963.

News Now Philip K. Dick's Bailiwick
   'A vast complex electronic organism... responsible to no one...' - Philip K. Dick, 1963.

AI Tool Lynx Insight And The Cybernetic Newsroom
   'The structure,... was once a great homeostatic newspaper, the New York Times. It printed itself directly below us...' - Philip K. Dick, 1963.

Poor Humans. Miami Herald Bot Writes Great Real Estate Articles.
   'Nothing of news-interest escape it...' - Philip K. Dick, 1953.

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