Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2009-05-06 Public domain in the USA. 279 Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 Dick, Philip Kindred The Crystal Crypt Reading ease score: 87.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Crystal Crypt" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction short story written in the early 1950s. The narrative unfolds aboard an Inner-Flight spaceship, which represents the last group of Terran passengers leaving Mars for Earth amidst rising tensions between the two planets. The main topic explores themes of espionage, identity, and the impending threat of war, juxtaposing human emotions and fears against the backdrop of an interplanetary conflict. In the story, the passengers on the spaceship find themselves caught in a tense situation when a Martian official boards the ship to search for three saboteurs responsible for the destruction of a Martian city. Tensions rise as the passengers are questioned and searched, revealing underlying fears regarding the Martians and the precariousness of their escape to Terra. The twist reveals that the saboteurs are indeed on board, cleverly disguised as ordinary passengers. The narrative builds suspense as the secret motives of the saboteurs are finally unveiled, culminating in a plan to not destroy but to shrink the Martian city and hold it ransom, thus changing the balance of power between Mars and Terra. The story encapsulates the themes of deception and the complexities of survival in a hostile universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 70517 70522 2024-10-12T11:04:31.217375 2023-09-12T13:17:37.877486 text/html text/html 67159 2011-05-04T08:17:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 86446 2011-05-04T08:49:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 147716 2024-10-12T11:04:36.154350 application/epub+zip 147186 2024-10-12T11:04:33.397399 application/epub+zip 86432 2024-10-12T11:04:31.941377 application/epub+zip 282319 2024-10-12T11:04:38.112362 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 274931 2024-10-12T11:04:35.406371 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 142753 2022-09-13T10:41:33.348107 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 63378 63278 2024-10-12T11:04:30.880372 2023-09-12T13:17:37.656496 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 63200 2011-05-04T08:18:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 24007 2011-05-04T08:49:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20134 2024-10-12T11:04:38.365323 application/rdf+xml 12615 2024-10-12T11:04:32.684517 image/jpeg 3419 2024-10-12T11:04:32.266360 image/jpeg 145667 2024-10-12T11:04:31.227382 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia