โ Scribed by Philip K Dick
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"...fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form for the expression of his ideas" -- The Independent
'An elusive and in-incomparable artist' -- Ursula K. Le Guin
'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction.' -- Sunday Times
A collection of short stories from the author of numerous science fiction novels, including early tales written in 1951 and 1952 which have not been published previously. This volume is the first in a series of the collected works of 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.
SUMMARY: This volume covers a wide span, from late 1954 through to 1963, the years during which Dick began writing novels prolifically and his short story output lessened. "The Days of Perky Pat" inspired one of Dick's greatest works, the novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; The Penul
### From Publishers Weekly Police Commissioner John Anderton finds himself at the mercy of his own crime-prevention system when the prescient precogs he's hired to stop crime before it starts peg him as a soon-to-be murderer in Philip K. Dick's masterful short story The Minority Report. This slim v
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A collection of stories by the celebrated science fiction writer includes never-before-published selections as well as the author's standards--``The Little Black Box'' and ``The Pre-Person'' among them.
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The stories within SECOND VARIETY were written between 1952 and 1955, while America was in the grip of McCarthyism. The concerns of the time are reflected in stories such as "Second Variety", which tells of an endless war fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robots, o