Exhibit Piece
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Exhibit Piece is a 1954 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. The story is an early exploration of the concept of shifting realities, so common in the writer's fiction later on. The protagonist is a future historian of the 20th century and finds himself shifting in time from the future to that time period. At first it is unclear whether he is merely a man from the past imagining a future life, or vice versa.
The story is clearly resolved, with the conventional device of a 'time gate' explaining that the man has in actuality moved in time. This is unlike Dick's later fiction, in which the concept of a fixed 'reality' became increasingly ambiguous.
| Short Stories by Phillip K Dick |
| Adjustment Team | All We Marsmen | Autofac | Beyond Lies the Wub | Beyond the Door | Breakfast at Twilight | Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked | Captive Market | The Crawlers | The Chromium Fence | The Crystal Crypt | The Days of Perky Pat | The Defenders | The Electric Ant | Exhibit Piece | The Exit Door Leads In | Explorers We | The Eye of The Sibyl | The Eyes Have It | Fair Game | Faith of our Fathers | The Father-thing | Fawn, Look Back | Foster, You're Dead! | A Game of Unchance | A Glass of Darkness | The Golden Man | Holy Quarrel | The Hood Maker | Human Is | I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon | If There Were No Benny Cemoli | James P. Crow | The Last of the Masters | The Little Black Box | A Little Something For Us Tempunauts | Meddler | Minority Report | Misadjustment | The Mold of Yancy | The Name of the Game is Death | Not By Its Cover | Novelty Act | Null-o | Of Withered Apples | Oh, to be a Blobel! | Orpheus with Clay Feet | Pay for the Printer | Paycheck | The Pre-persons | Precious Artifact | A Present for Pat | The Preserving Machine | Prize Ship | Progeny | Project Plowshare | Prominent Author | Psi-man Heal My Child! | Rautavaara's Case | Recall Mechanism | Retreat Syndrome | Return Match | Roog | Sales Pitch | Second Variety | Service Call | Shell Game | The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford | Small Town | Some Kinds of Life | Souvenir | Stability | Stand-by | Strange Eden | A Surface Raid | Survey Team | Time Pawn | To Serve the Master | Tony and the Beetles | The Trouble with Bubbles | The Unreconstructed M | The Unteleported Man | Upon the Dull Earth | The Variable Man | War Game | War Veteran | The War with the Fnools | Waterspider | We Can Remember It For You Wholesale | What the Dead Men Say | What'll We Do With Ragland Park? | A World of Talent | The World She Wanted | Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday |
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