A review by itsmelaurenc
The Crystal Crypt by Philip K. Dick

adventurous tense fast-paced

4.75

Leaving this for my reference later since I’m binging all Dick’s short stories:

So the Terras on Mars are leaving in droves because of some war starting between Terra and Mars. 3 rebels used a weapon that sucked an entire Martian city (the crystal crypt) into a box they could easily travel back to Earth with and use for intelligence. Martians had a “truth box” that every Terran had to say whether they knew anything about a destroyed city, so obv it didn’t work on the 3 rebels bc the city wasn’t technically destroyed, just commandeered. Unfortunately for them, on the ship to Terra they started talking to another passenger about it thinking he wanted to join the rebellion and he was a Martian agent the entire time. They got caught.