Selected stories of Philip K. Dick / introduction by Jonathan Lethem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dick, Philip K.

Contributor:

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 476 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Book club edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2002]

Summary:

"Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to Kafka and Vonnegut. Collected here are 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 Davis 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. Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent distillation of one of American literature's most searching imaginations."--Jacket.

Contents:

Beyond lies the wub

Roog

Paycheck

Second variety

Imposter

The king of the elves

Adjustment team

Foster, you're dead

Upon the dull earth

Autofac

The minority report

The days of perky Pat

Precious artifact

A game of unchance

We can remember it for you wholesale

Faith of our fathers

The electric ant

A little something for us tempunauts

The exit door leads in

Rautavaara's case

I hope I shall arrive soon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 253918

ISBN:

0375421513

9780375421518

OCLC:

973798635

Publisher Number:

54693 Science Fiction Book Club