The Defenders — Philip K. Dick’s Chilling Vision of a War the Machines Refused to Fight
For eight years, humanity has lived underground.
Above them, the nuclear war continues.
Or so they have been told.
The surface belongs to machines now—robot “leadies” built to fight a war too radioactive for human beings. Every day they return below ground with reports of ruined cities, new attacks and an enemy that refuses to surrender.
Then someone decides to go up and see the war for himself.
What he discovers changes everything.
Tonight on Chesterton Radio, X Minus One presents “The Defenders,” adapted from the story by Philip K. Dick—one of the most provocative science-fiction writers of…
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