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We Can Build You is a 1972 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Written in 1962 as The First in Our Family, it remained unpublished until appearing in serial form as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum in the November 1969 and January 1970 issues of Amazing Stories magazine, re-titled by editor Ted White.
Jul 1, 1972 · In We Can Build You, published in 1972, we have sleazy Sam K. Barrows, a multimillionaire forever on the lookout to stack up even more profit. Sam has the idea to use simulacrum to pose as humans on the moon to entice real humans to buy his property and settle there themselves.
Aug 14, 2012 · In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick intertwines the story of a toxic love affair with one about sentient robots, and unflinchingly views it all...
WE CAN BUILD YOU tells of the machinations of the small firm MASA Associates as they build two simulacra, one of Edwin M. Stanton and one of Abraham Lincoln. Stanton was Lincoln’s Secretary of War. Their scheme is to build a swath of Civil War simulacra so that they can stage a full-scale recreation of the Civil War.
Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham...
Aug 14, 2012 · In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick tells a story of toxic love and compassionate robots. When Louis Rosen’s electronic organ company builds a pitch-perfect robotic replica of Abraham Lincoln, they are pulled into the orbit of a shady businessman, who is looking to use Lincoln for his own profit.
Aug 14, 2012 · In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick intertwines the story of a toxic love affair with one about sentient robots, and unflinchingly views it all through the prism of mental illness—which spares neither human nor robot. The end result is one of Dick’s most quietly powerful works.
