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Incubator Q&A What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?

Philip K. Dick would posit[1] that the surface war is all done by robots. The robots lie about what is happening on the surface, and ended the war as soon as no one could independently verify the s...

posted 2mo ago by Michael‭ · edited 2mo ago by Michael‭

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Michael‭ · 2024-09-11T13:57:44Z (2 months ago)
Add an audiobook version, too.

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[Philip K. Dick][pkd] would posit[^the-defenders] that the surface war is all done by robots. The robots lie about what is happening on the surface, and ended the war as soon as no one could independently verify the situation.
~~[^the-defenders]: **The Defenders** [on Wikipedia][wiki] or [on Project Gutenberg][guten].~~
[pkd]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story)
~~[guten]: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28767~~

[Philip K. Dick][pkd] would posit[^the-defenders] that the surface war is all done by robots. The robots lie about what is happening on the surface, and ended the war as soon as no one could independently verify the situation.
[^the-defenders]: **The Defenders** on [Wikipedia][wiki], [Project Gutenberg][guten], or [LibreVox][lvox] (track 4).
[pkd]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story)
[guten]: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28767
[lvox]: https://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-017/

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Michael‭ · 2024-09-11T13:53:38Z (2 months ago)

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[Philip K. Dick][pkd] would posit[^the-defenders] that the surface war is all done by robots. The robots lie about what is happening on the surface, and ended the war as soon as no one could independently verify the situation.

[^the-defenders]: **The Defenders** [on Wikipedia][wiki] or [on Project Gutenberg][guten].

[pkd]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story)
[guten]: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28767

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