A single-page scanned PDF of 'The Visitation,' an early piece by Philip K. Dick published in the Berkeley Daily Gazette on August 14, 1944. No OCR text layer is present. Dick would have been approximately fifteen to sixteen years old at the time of publication.
This is the third known juvenile publication by Dick in the Berkeley Daily Gazette, following 'The Jungle People' (1942) and 'The Magician's Box' (February 1944). The title 'The Visitation' suggests themes of encounter with the unknown or supernatural that would become central to Dick's mature work, particularly his explorations of divine intervention and mystical experience. Together with his other juvenile publications, this piece documents the early development of one of the most important science fiction writers of the twentieth century.