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Shell Game by Philip K. Dick:
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"None of them had captured or killed a single enemy! Then whom were they at war with?"
('Shell Game' by Philip K. Dick)
Short story details the travails of a group of people stranded on an alien planet. Their obsessive concern about security and alleged attacks leads them to question their own sanity. This story was the basis for Dick's excellent 1964 novel Clans of the Alphane Moon.
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