page_title: The Defenders (short story)
hierarchical_section_title: The Defenders (short story)
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Galaxy, January 1953
context_page_description: "The Defenders" is a 1953 science fiction novelette by American author Philip K. Dick, and the basis for Dick's 1964 novel The Penultimate Truth. It is one of several of his stories to be expanded into a novel. The story was first published in the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
  In 1956, the story was adapted for the radio program X Minus One by George Lefferts.
context_section_description: "The Defenders" is a 1953 science fiction novelette by American author Philip K. Dick, and the basis for Dick's 1964 novel The Penultimate Truth.  It is one of several of his stories to be expanded into a novel.  The story was first published in the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
  In 1956, the story was adapted for the radio program X Minus One by George Lefferts.
caption: The novelette "The Defenders" was the cover story for the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller.
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