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Investigation reveals that the star did not explode because Cole had made the Icarus device function fully according to its inventor's intentions, solving the problem that had destroyed the prototype. Instead of a powerful bomb, humanity now has a working FTL drive that cannot be intercepted by the
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and other inventors. The engineer working on the FTL bomb realizes that the Variable Man might be able to make Icarus work, and manages to track him down. Cole agrees to help on the understanding that he will then be sent back to his own time with a quantity of precious metals to buy equipment for
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that was used for research about the past. The authorities attempt to capture him but he evades them and goes on the run. It is discovered that Cole has a genius for intuitively understanding and repairing machines, which he used to earn money as a repair man in his own time, and again while on the
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near light speed caused a huge explosion when the first prototype returned to sub-light speed, destroying the inventor and most of his equipment. Development of Icarus as a weapon alters the calculated odds in Terra's favour. There are two problems; the first is that a second FTL device has not yet
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Cole eventually succeeds and an Icarus device is launched towards Proxima Centauri, with the intention of destroying the star along with its planets while Earth's fleet attacks the empire's forces in space. The device fails to affect its target, leading to a crushing defeat for Terra.
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been made to work, and the second is the existence of a man from the past brought to the present. He is an "unknown variable" that confuses the SRB machines, making it impossible to accurately calculate the odds. That man is Thomas Cole, who became known as
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Eventually Terra comes up with a concept for a bomb, called Icarus, that Proxima cannot defend against because it travels at faster-than-light (FTL) speeds. Icarus started as an experimental transport device, but the
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Centaurans. The Terran authorities realise they are now free to travel beyond the limits of the Centauran Empire and there is no further need for war.
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The human race has achieved space travel and begun to spread out from Earth, but is limited by an old and corrupt Centauran Empire, ruled from
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because it was published in the United States between January 1, 1950, and December 31, 1963, but copyright was not renewed with the
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by American writer Philip K. Dick, which he wrote and sold before he had an agent. It was first published in the British magazine
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run. Other characters speculate that such abilities were more common in the pre-WWI era that produced
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where magazines tended to be published farther ahead of their cover dates than in the UK.
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An omnibus collection of Dick's short fiction in the public domain, including this story
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can be found in several collections of Dick's short stories, including
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Philip Kindred Dick, Metaphysical Conjurer: A Working Bibliography
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Philip Kindred Dick, Metaphysical Conjurer: A Working Bibliography
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Stephensen-Payne, Phil; Benson, Jr., Gordon (1992),
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To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1963
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Index

Philip K. Dick
The Variable Man (collection)
science fiction
novella
Space Science Fiction
Alex Ebel
UK
United States
The Variable Man
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
public domain
United States
United States Copyright Office
Proxima Centauri
cold war
build-up of mass
First World War
Edison
To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1963
ISBN
0-916063-24-0
Underwood/Miller
ISBN
0-934438-33-1
ISBN
1-871133-42-4
Underwood/Miller
ISBN
0-934438-33-1
ISBN

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