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Short Story

What the Dead Men Say

1964

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About this story

A powerful businessman dies, but the attempt to preserve him in a communicative half-life goes wrong. When his voice begins disrupting broadcasts, those managing his estate face a struggle over influence that may extend beyond death.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Apr 15, 1963

    Composition: no later than Apr 15, 1963

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Apr 15, 1963

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Apr 15, 1963

  3. Jun 1964

    First published Jun 1964

    Worlds of Tomorrow

Textual relationships

Genealogy

  • Incorporated intoUbikWhat the Dead Men Say was excerpted and adapted into the first chapter of Ubik.