The Preserving Machine (1953)
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The Preserving Machine in the News
The Departed, By Joathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review: November 9, 2008.
Jonathan Lethem talks about the short story
The Preserving Machine: In Philip K. Dick’s 1953 short story “The Preserving Machine,” an impassioned inventor creates a device for “preserving” the canon of classical music — the sacred and, he fears, impermanent beauties of Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven and so forth — by feeding it into a device that transforms the compositions into living creatures... read more