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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.

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