{"product_id":"2940148907992","title":"Second Variety (Annotated)","description":"This edition is annotated, with additional information about the work.  It has been formatted for your NOOK. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Second Variety\" is an influential short story by Philip K. Dick first published in Space Science Fiction magazine, in May 1953. A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West has reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. The war continues however among the scattered remains of humanity. The Western forces have recently developed \"claws\", which are autonomous self-replicating robots to fight on their side. It is one of Dick's many stories in which nuclear war has rendered the Earth's surface uninhabitable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe short story \"Jon's World\" (1954) revisited the claw-infested world of \"Second Variety\". The story was adapted to the movie Screamers in 1995.","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072812859632,"sku":"2940148907992","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148907992_p0.jpg?v=1763709829","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148907992","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}