A Surface Raid

Dick, Philip K. "A Surface Raid." Fantastic Universe July 1955. Coll. Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, q.v. under Anthologies, vol. 2: Second Variety.

Discussed by M. J. Tolley, "Some Kind of Life" (cited under Literary Criticism). Subterranean "technos" raid surface for "saps": low-tech humans. Tolley concludes that the technos have apparently "lost compassion . . . and original creativity, by gaining technological skill" (10). Cf. and contrast Morlocks and Eloi in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine.