Tony and the Beetles (Annotated)

This short story by Philip K. Dick is a short-story about racism in a colony world. The Terra race have been beating the Beetles for years and set up colonies in their system. Unfortunately, the Terra have just suffered a major defeat. From the point of view of Tony, a boy born on one of the colony worlds and knowing no other life, this change in Terra’s fortunes has consequences: his friends, the Beetle children, turn out to be not so friendly .

This edition is also annotated, with the complete bibliography of Philip K. Dick.