Project Gutenberg 2010-03-06 Public domain in the USA. 34254 Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 Dick, Philip Kindred The Eyes Have It Produced from Science Fiction Stories 1953. Produced by Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Eyes Have It" by Philip K. Dick is a short science fiction story written in the early to mid-20th century. The work delves into themes of perception and reality, illustrating how ordinary observations can take on extraordinary implications when viewed from a different perspective. It showcases Dick's signature style of blending unsettling humor with speculative ideas. The narrative follows an unnamed protagonist who stumbles upon a seemingly innocuous book featuring peculiar descriptions of human anatomy. As he reads, he grows increasingly alarmed by the bizarre possibility that the characters in the story are actually alien life forms capable of detaching their body parts. The protagonist's mounting horror is compounded by his realization that these nonhuman beings live without any regard for their missing limbs or organs, treating such actions as mundane. Ultimately, the tale culminates in the protagonist's desperate attempt to escape the unsettling implications of the story, suggesting a whimsical yet unnerving critique of human nature and societal norms. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 78.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Humorous stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Humour Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Humour Category: American Literature 34775 2025-06-13T04:51:32.119792 text/html 30873 2021-01-06T06:37:36 text/html; charset=utf-8 11713 2021-01-06T06:37:36 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 75610 2025-06-13T04:51:36.309783 application/epub+zip 74322 2025-06-13T04:51:33.986785 application/epub+zip 74321 2025-06-13T04:51:32.796803 application/epub+zip 163536 2025-06-13T04:51:38.074848 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 156572 2025-06-13T04:51:35.607783 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 132414 2022-09-14T12:15:33.002993 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 26880 2025-06-13T04:51:31.821824 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 26770 2021-01-06T06:37:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 10263 2021-01-06T06:37:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19528 2025-06-13T04:51:38.220764 application/rdf+xml 12799 2025-06-13T04:51:33.349792 image/jpeg 3336 2025-06-13T04:51:33.070794 image/jpeg 74146 2025-06-13T04:51:32.129802 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia