Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 - Fiction - 466 pages
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dick’s most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers.

In “The Days of Perky Pat,” people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth’s real inhabitants. “Adjustment Team” looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In “Autofac,” one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,” we follow the story of one man whose very reality may be nothing more than a nightmare. The collection also includes such classic stories as “The Minority Report,” the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie, and “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” the basis for the film Total Recall. With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent distillation of one of American literature's most searching imaginations.
 

Contents

Beyond Lies the Wub
1
Roog
9
Paycheck
15
Second Variety
51
Imposter
97
The King of the Elves
113
Adjustment Team
133
Foster Youre Dead
157
A Game of Unchance
303
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
325
Faith of Our Fathers
347
The Electric Ant
379
A Little Something for Us Tempunauts
397
The Exit Door Leads In
419
Rautavaaras Case
439
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
449

Upon the Dull Earth
177
Autofac
199
The Minority Report
223
The Days of Perky Pat
261
Precious Artifact
287
Back Flap
467
Back Cover
468
Spine
469
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Over a writing career that spanned three decades, PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film, notably Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, as well as television's The Man in the High Castle. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, including the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and between 2007 and 2009, the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

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