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by Philip K. Dick

Also published as The Crack in Space. Another remarkable novella by Dick; he combines themes like the issues surrounding the election of America's first black president with forced warehousing of lower-class people with cold-sleep, orbital brothels and the promise of new frontiers via a rip in space time found in a household appliance.

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Precisely Crafted Artificial Organs Via Stereolithography
   Interesting technique provides another way to create an artificial organ that is not just biologically compatible, but a perfect three-dimensional fit.

Organovo Organ Printing Future Video
   Very nicely done video shows the near, no longer entirely science-fictional future of medicine.

3D Bioprinter Now In Production
   That's right, Dick fans, your artiforgs will be ready soon.

Artificial Kidney Prototype To Be Implantable
   Artificial organs have been a science fiction staple for a long time; perhaps we'll see implantable mechanical organs soon.

Permanent Mechanical Heart A First For Children
   Philip K. Dick talked about artificial mechanical organs almost sixty years ago.

Synthetic Trachea From Patient's Own Cells Implanted
   Amazing success in Stockholm; the patient has been discharged from the hospital.

PAAL Artificial Lung And Blood Pump Under Development
   'George Walt's corporate existence proved the workability of wholly mechanical organs...'- Philip K. Dick, 1964.

Salamandra Robotica II Crawls Onto Land
   'He's taken the mining worm apart...'- Emmett McDowel, 1946.

CARMAT Bioprosthetic Total Human Heart Replacement
   'George Walt's corporate existence proved the workability of wholly mechanical organs...'- Philip K. Dick, 1964.

Living Human Kidneys 3D-Printed In China
   Next thing you know, you'll be able to print your own organs at home...

France Implants First Artificial Heart
   'The workability of wholly mechanical organs…'- Philip K. Dick, 1964.

'Artificial Spleen' Cleans The Blood
   'The workability of wholly mechanical organs... '- Philip K. Dick, 1964.

Surgically Implantable Artificial Kidney Starts Testing
   'George Walt... proved the workability of wholly mechanical organs...' - Philip K. Dick, 1964.

Have Scientists Found A Parallel Universe Leaking Into Ours
   'Ellis had found a weak point, a shimmer, at which another continuum completely had been visible.' - Philip K. Dick, 1966.

First US Clinical Trial For Wearable Artificial Kidney
   'Wholly mechanical organs...' - Philip K. Dick, 1964.

MiniMed 670G - First 'Artificial Pancreas' Approved By FDA
   'Proved the workability of wholly mechanical organs...' - Philip K. Dick, 1964.

Artificial, Implantable Kidney Prototype
   'George Walt's corporate existence proved the workability of wholly mechanical organs...' - Philip K. Dick, 1964.

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