Human Is
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Human Is is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick
. It was first published in Startling Stories, Winter 1955. The plot centers on the crisis facing a woman whose cold and emotionally abusive husband returns, from a survey mission to the dying planet Rexor IV, changed for the better—due to his psyche being replaced by a Rexorian glad to have escaped the confines of its dying planet.
Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...
. It was first published in Startling Stories, Winter 1955. The plot centers on the crisis facing a woman whose cold and emotionally abusive husband returns, from a survey mission to the dying planet Rexor IV, changed for the better—due to his psyche being replaced by a Rexorian glad to have escaped the confines of its dying planet.