Souvenir

Dick, Philip K. "Souvenir." Fantastic Universe Oct. 1954. Coll. Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (q.v. under Anthologies and Collections), vol. 2: Second Variety.

Discussed by M. J. Tolley, "Some Kind of Life" (cited under Literary Criticism). The souvenir is a wooden cup that may suffice to preserve the memory and precedent of a world whose people are aware of high technology but choose not to use it. Cf. and contrast Dick's "A Surface Raid" and Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home (both cited in this Category).