The Defenders
By Philip K. Dick
- Release Date: 1961-01-01
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
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"The Defenders" is a 1953 science fiction short story by American author Philip K. Dick, and the basis for Dick's 1964 novel The Penultimate Truth. It is one of several of his short stories to be expanded into a novel. The short story was first published in the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.