New thing today, finished The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick. I've been reading a collection of his short stories, and overall I really love his stuff. There's a lot of good action and sci-fi with it, and he makes characters and stories very suspenseful, intriguing and interesting. The Variable Man was a much longer short story, about a man named Thomas Cole, who is unexpectedly brought into the future and is in the middle of war preparations. He is a fixer, good at fixing things, and is intuitive with machines, and so is able to affect the story and future machines and devices with a sort of genius savant clarity. I won't give it away, but it kept me interested and was a nice unexpected ending. That's another thing I like about his stories. They can surprise me which I love. This one was very good and I highly recommend reading his stuff!
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