The Golden Man: Short Story

The DCA is a government agency tasked with tracking down humans born with superhuman mutations, all of whom are considered a threat to the continued survival of the human race. But even seasoned veterans of the DCA worry that one day they will encounter a mutant that they cannot best—the mutant who will be the first of an entirely new species that will replace Homo sapiens as the dominant species on the planet.

Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and e...