Jon’s World
by Philip K. Dick
First the Soviets and the Westerners fought. Then the Westerners brought Schonerman’s
killer robots into the mix. Then the robots fought both human sides. You know all that
from Dick’s earlier story, “Second Variety.” But now it’s long after the
desolation, long enough that Caleb Ryan and his financial backer Kastner are willing to
bring back the secret of Schonerman’s robots from the past to make their world a better
place for surviving mankind, including Ryan’s visionary son Jon.
— Michael Main
And then the terminator’s claws began to manufacture their own
varieties and attack Soviets and Westerners alike. The only humans that survived were
those at the UN base on Luna.
“Jon’s World” by Philip K. Dick, in Time to Come:
Science-Fiction Stories of Tomorrow, edited by August Derleth; Farrar (Strass and
Young, April 1954).