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We Can Build You   Cover of first edition (paperback) Author Philip K. Dick Country United States Language English Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher DAW Books Publication date 1972 Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Pages 206 pp ISBN ISBN 0-679-75296-X (recent edition) OCLC Number 29428716 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 20 LC Classification PS3554.I3 W4 1994 We Can Build You is a 1972 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. Written in 1962, it remained unpublished until appearing in serial form as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum in the November 1969 and January 1970 issues of Amazing Stories magazine. Plot summary We Can Build You is set in a then-future 1982. It centers on Louis Rosen, a small businessman in the near future whose company produces spinets and electronic organs. Rosen's partner wants to begin production of simulacra, or androids, based on famous Civil War figures. The firm completes two prototypes, one of Edwin M. Stanton and one of Abraham Lincoln. Rosen then attempts to sell the robot patents to Sam K. Barrows, an influential businessman who is opening up lunar real estate for purchase and colonization. Unfortunately, while the Stanton simulacrum proves able to adapt to contemporary U.S. society, the Lincoln simulacrum proves unable to do so, possibly due to the fact that the original experienced schizophrenia. At the same time, Louis begins a relationship with Pris Frauenzimmer, the schizophrenic daughter of his business partner, who has designed both simulacra. This becomes an obsession and Louis himself begins to hallucinate about Pris. At the same time, Pris defects to Barrows, but loses faith in the benevolence of their partnership when his objectives are disclosed as more prosaic than hers, with his plans to use simulacra colonists to entice human settlement on the Moon and other human interplanetary colonies within the solar system. After Pris' destruction of a John Wilkes Booth prototype simulacra, the Stanton/Lincoln simulacra strand of the plot abruptly ends, with no definite resolution. The remainder of the book deals with Louis Rosen's admission of schizophrenia and his Jungian therapeutic treatment at the Kasanin Centre in Kansas, from where Pris was originally released. Under the influence of his therapist, Rosen creates a virtual hallucinatory reality of his own, where he resumes his relationship with Pris, marries her, they have children, and grow old together, culminating in him hitting her hallucinatory doppelgänger. This concludes his final therapy session, and he is released from the Kasanin clinic, after his doctor accuses him of malingering. The end of the novel asks whether he was actually ill in the first place. However, Pris has become unwell again, and returned to Kasanin after a temporary career as a simulacra designer earlier in the novel. External links Philip K. Dick Trust: We Can Build You We Can Build You cover art gallery v · d · eWorks of Philip K. Dick  Novels 1950s Gather Yourselves Together (1950) · Voices from the Street (1952) · Vulcan's Hammer (1953) · Dr. Futurity (1953) · The Cosmic Puppets (1953) · Solar Lottery (1954) · Mary and the Giant (1954) · The World Jones Made (1954) · Eye in the Sky (1955) · The Man Who Japed (1955) · A Time for George Stavros (1956) · Pilgrim on the Hill (1956) · The Broken Bubble (1956) · Puttering About in a Small Land (1957) · Nicholas and the Higs (1958) · Time Out of Joint (1958) · In Milton Lumky Territory (1958) · Confessions of a Crap Artist (1959) 1960s The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (1960) · Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (1960) · The Man in the High Castle (1961) · We Can Build You (1962) · Martian Time-Slip (1962) · Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1963) · The Game-Players of Titan (1963) · The Simulacra (1963) · The Crack in Space (1963) · Now Wait for Last Year (1963) · Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964) · The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) · The Zap Gun (1964) · The Penultimate Truth (1964) · Deus Irae (1964) · The Unteleported Man (1964) · The Ganymede Takeover (1965) · Counter-Clock World (1965) · Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1966) · Nick and the Glimmung (1966) · Ubik (1966) · Galactic Pot-Healer (1968) · A Maze of Death (1968) · Our Friends from Frolix 8 (1969) 1970s Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) · A Scanner Darkly (1977) · Radio Free Albemuth (1976) 1980s VALIS (1981) · The Divine Invasion (1981) · The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982) · The Owl in Daylight (unfinished)  Short story collections 1950s A Handful of Darkness (1955) · The Variable Man (1956) 1960s The Preserving Machine (1969) 1970s The Book of Philip K. Dick (1973) · The Best of Philip K. Dick (1977) 1980s The Golden Man (1980) · Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities (1984) · I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1985) · The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (1987) · Beyond Lies the Wub (1988) · The Dark Haired Girl (1989) · The Father-Thing (1989) · Second Variety (1989) 1990s The Days of Perky Pat (1990) · The Little Black Box (1990) · The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990) · We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990) · The Minority Report (1991) · Second Variety (1991) · The Eye of the Sibyl (1992) · The Philip K. Dick Reader (1997) 2000s Minority Report (2002) · Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick (2002) · Paycheck (2004) · Vintage PKD (2006)  Short stories 1950s "Beyond Lies the Wub" (1952) · "The Gun" (1952) · "The Skull" (1952) · "The Little Movement" (1952) · "The Defenders" (1953) · "Mr. Spaceship" (1953) · "Piper in the Woods" (1953) · "Roog" (1953) · "The Infinities" (1953) · "Second Variety" (1953) · "The World She Wanted" (1953) · "Colony" (1953) · "The Cookie Lady" (1953) · "Impostor" (1953) · "Martians Come in Clouds" (1953) · "Paycheck" (1953) · "The Preserving Machine" (1953) · "The Cosmic Poachers" (1953) · "Expendable" (1953) · "The Indefatigable Frog" (1953) · "The Commuter" (1953) · "Out in the Garden" (1953) · "The Great C" (1953) · "The King of the Elves" (1953) · "The Trouble with Bubbles" (1953) · "The Variable Man" (1953) · "The Impossible Planet" (1953) · "Planet for Transients" (1953) · "Some Kinds of Life" (1953) · "The Builder" (1953) · "The Hanging Stranger" (1953) · "Project: Earth" (1953) · "The Eyes Have It" (1953) · "Tony and the Beetles" (1953) · "Prize Ship" (1954) · "Beyond the Door" (1954) · "The Crystal Crypt" (1954) · "A Present for Pat" (1954) · "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" (1954) · "The Golden Man" (1954) · "James P. Crow" (1954) · "Prominent Author" (1954) · "Small Town" (1954) · "Survey Team" (1954) · "Sales Pitch" (1954) · "Time Pawn" (1954) · "Breakfast at Twilight" (1954) · "The Crawlers" (1954) · "Of Withered Apples" (1954) · "Exhibit Piece" (1954) · "Adjustment Team" (1954) · "Shell Game" (1954) · "Meddler" (1954) · "Souvenir" (1954) · "A World of Talent" (1954) · "The Last of the Masters" (1954) · "Progeny" (1954) · "Upon the Dull Earth" (1954) · "The Father-thing" (1954) · "Strange Eden" (1954) · "Jon's World" (1954) · "The Turning Wheel" (1954) · "Foster, You're Dead!" (1955) · "Human Is" (1955) · "War Veteran" (1955) · "Captive Market" (1955) · "Nanny" (1955) · "The Hood Maker" (1955) · "The Chromium Fence" (1955) · "Service Call" (1955) · "A Surface Raid" (1955) · "The Mold of Yancy" (1955) · "Autofac" (1955) · "Psi-man Heal My Child!" (1955) · "The Minority Report" (1956) · "To Serve the Master" (1956) · "Pay for the Printer" (1956) · "A Glass of Darkness" (1956) · "The Unreconstructed M" (1957) · "Misadjustment" (1957) · "Null-O" (1958) · "Explorers We" (1959) · "Recall Mechanism" (1959) · "Fair Game" (1959) · "War Game" (1959) 1960s "All We Marsmen" (1963) · "Stand-by" (1963) · "What'll We Do with Ragland Park?" (1963) · "The Days of Perky Pat" (1963) · "If There Were No Benny Cemoli" (1963) · "Waterspider" (1964) · "Novelty Act" (1964) · "Oh, to Be a Blobel!" (1964) · "The War with the Fnools" (1964) · "What the Dead Men Say" (1964) · "Orpheus with Clay Feet" (1964) · "Cantata 140" (1964) · "A Game of Unchance" (1964) · "The Little Black Box" (1964) · "Precious Artifact" (1964) · "The Unteleported Man" (1964) · "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) · "Project Plowshare" (1965) · "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966) · "Holy Quarrel" (1966) · "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday" (1966) · "Return Match" (1967) · "Faith of Our Fathers" (1967) · "Not by Its Cover" (1968) · "The Story to End All Stories" (1968) · "The Electric Ant" (1969) · "A. Lincoln, Simulacrum" (1969) 1970s "The Pre-persons" (1974) · "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts" (1974) · "The Exit Door Leads In" (1979) 1980s "Chains of Air, Web of Aethyr" (1980) · "Rautavaara's Case" (1980) · "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (1980) · "The Alien Mind" (1981) · "Strange Memories of Death" (1984) · "Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked" (1987) · "The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree" (1987) · "The Eye of the Sibyl" (1987) · "Stability" (1987) · "Goodbye, Vincent" (1988)  Film and television adaptations 1980s Blade Runner (1982) 1990s Total Recall (1990) · Confessions d'un Barjo (1992) · Screamers (1995) · Total Recall 2070 (1999 TV-series) 2000s Impostor (2002) · Minority Report (2002) · Paycheck (2003) · A Scanner Darkly (2006) · Next (2007) · Screamers: The Hunting (2009) 2010s Radio Free Albemuth (2011) · The Adjustment Bureau (2011) · King of the Elves (2012)