The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick Episode #11
Philip K. Dick | April 5, 2022-
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The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick Episode #11
Philip K. Dick
THE EYES HAVE IT
Episode #11 · Written by Philip K. Dick · Narrated by Scott Miller
A man stumbles upon what he believes is proof of a silent alien invasion—hidden in plain sight within the pages of an ordinary paperback. His frantic “discovery” reveals more about human imagination than any extraterrestrial plot.
Sometimes the strangest discoveries come from the smallest misunderstandings. While idly paging through a forgotten paperback, a man notices something peculiar—phrases that seem to describe people whose eyes, arms, and even hearts move about on their own. In these seemingly innocent lines, he perceives undeniable evidence that Earth has already been invaded by a race of shape-shifting aliens living among us.
His imagination runs wild as he decodes each new clue: “his eyes moved from person to person,” “she gave him her hand,” “they split up.” What ordinary readers take as harmless figures of speech, he interprets as shocking revelations. The result is a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek descent into linguistic madness—a masterful parody of paranoia and the literal-minded reading of fiction itself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Originally published in the early 1950s, The Eyes Have It showcases Philip K. Dick’s gift for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. Long before his darker explorations of reality and illusion, Dick proved he could twist humor, wordplay, and science-fiction imagination into a perfect short story gem.
Philip K. Dick remains one of the most influential authors in twentieth-century literature. His work inspired countless films (Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report) and continues to shape modern discussions of consciousness, technology, and truth. In The Eyes Have It, he reminds us that even paranoia can be funny—and that words themselves might hide entire universes.
LISTEN TO THE STORY
Listen to The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick — a witty vintage sci-fi tale that turns simple phrases into signs of alien life hiding in plain sight
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No writer has shaped The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast more profoundly than Philip K. Dick.
From the very beginning, Dick’s uneasy visions have pulsed at the heart of this show. Episode 1 featured The Hanging Stranger, a chilling tale of a corpse swaying in a public square while ordinary citizens hurry past as if nothing is wrong. That opening story set the tone for everything that followed — paranoia in broad daylight, reality bending at the edges, and the quiet suspicion that the world you trust has already been replaced.
Dick’s genius was not in rockets or distant galaxies alone. He brought the strange into living rooms, offices, schoolyards, and suburban streets. In The Father Thing, a young boy becomes convinced his father has been replaced by something wearing his face. Human Is asks whether a man who returns from space truly is the same person — or whether “better” might mean something far more unsettling. Adjustment Team reveals unseen bureaucrats pausing and resetting reality itself while one man accidentally slips between the cracks.
Some stories strike with dark humor. The Eyes Have It turns casual figures of speech into proof of alien invasion. Sales Pitch unleashes a relentless robotic salesman that refuses to take no for an answer. Others cut deeper. Foster, You’re Dead! exposes the fear-driven consumerism of the Cold War era. Breakfast at Twilight drops an unsuspecting family into the aftermath of atomic catastrophe.
Across more than thirty narrated stories, we’ve traveled through Dick’s shifting realities: the eerie colonization of Mars in Tony and the Beetles, the strange evolutionary leap in The Golden Man, the quiet dread of Beyond the Door, the aching nostalgia of Exhibit Piece, and the philosophical unease of The Turning Wheel. Whether he’s writing about android prejudice in James P. Crow, divine intrusion in Upon the Dull Earth, or time paradoxes in The Skull, Dick always returns to one question: what does it mean to be real?
No other author appears more often in our catalog. No other writer has unsettled us so consistently. Explore the stories below and step into the shifting, unstable, unforgettable worlds of Philip K. Dick — the writer who launched this podcast and continues to haunt it.
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- Survey Team by Philip K. Dick
- Souvenir by Philip K. Dick
- Of Withered Apples by Philip K. Dick
- The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick
- Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick
- Small Town by Philip K. Dick
- Meddler by Philip K. Dick
- The Skull by Philip K. Dick
- Prominent Author by Philip K. Dick
- The Gun by Philip K. Dick
- The Crawlers by Philip K. Dick
- Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick
- Progeny by Philip K. Dick
- The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick
- Strange Eden by Philip K. Dick
- Tony and the Beetles by Philip K. Dick
- Breakfast at Twilight by Philip K. Dick
- Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick
- Piper in the Woods by Philip K. Dick
- Human Is by Philip K. Dick
- Foster, You're Dead! by Philip K. Dick
- Exhibit Piece by Philip K. Dick
- The Turning Wheel by Philip K. Dick
- The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick
- The Black Arts by Philip K. Dick
- Santa's Return by Philip K. Dick
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