โ Scribed by Philip K. Dick
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
A matchless display of Philip K. Dicks quirky, humorous, idiosyncratically philosophical world view. With one exception, all the stories of this volume were written over a nine-month period between 1951 and 1952, when Dick was making his first impact as a writer.
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