Second Variety
Book Author Philip K. Dick
Description"Second Variety" is an influential short story by Philip K. Dick first published in Space Science Fiction magazine, in May 1953. It is one of Dick's many stories in which nuclear war has rendered the Earth's surface to an uninhabitable, gray ash pile, and the only things remaining are killer robots. The short story "Jon's World" (1954) revisited the claw-infested world of "Second Variety".