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The Unteleported Man (later expanded and re-titled Lies, Inc.) is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that is set in an overpopulated, dystopian future where a corporation offers people an escape to a better world through a one-way teleportation device. Some 40 million people have emigrated to the supposed idyllic Whale’s Mouth, a distant colonized planet that is advertised as a lush and green utopia. Of course, it’s all a lie, and the travelers instead find themselves enslaved by a military dictatorship. Another paranoid and dark vision of the future as Philip K. Dick tends to imagine them.

Regarding the unique publishing history of The Unteleported Man, the original story appeared in Fantastic Magazine in 1964. Dick expanded the story for Ace Books, but the publisher rejected his revisions and simply stuck with the original story for the 1966 Ace Double. Dick continued to rework the novel over the years so when Berkley Books posthumously published the first expanded version in 1983, it was still not as Dick had intended it because they did not have the latest revisions. A year later, Victor Gollancz published Dick’s retitled and latest version, which had been retitled Lies, Inc., but it was still missing four pages from the manuscript. Gollancz commissioned John Sladek to write some connective material for the missing parts. However, eventually, the four missing pages were found by Dick's good friend and literary executor, Paul Williams, and a second edition of Lies, Inc. was published in 2004, at last how it is believed Dick intended it. The expanded text includes a harrowing 100-page long drug trip which follows after the main character is struck by an LSD-tipped dart.