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Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in his works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for "The Man in the High Castle," and in the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This volume includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955.
Volume 1/5. Contents:
- Stability
- Roog
- The Little Movement
- Beyond Lies the Wub
- The Gun
- The Skull
- The Defenders
- Mr. Spaceship
- Piper in the Woods
- The Infinites
- The Preserving Machine
- Expendable
- The Variable Man
- The Indefatigable Frog
- The Crystal Crypt
- The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
- The Builder
- Meddler
- Paycheck
- The Great C
- Out in the Garden
- The King of the Elves
- Colony
- Prize Ship
- Nanny
Other editions of this volume have the same list of stories, and were published under these titles:
- Beyond Lies the Wub,
- Paycheck and Other Classic Stories,
- The King of the Elves (+1 extra story).
432 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1987
Because you are currently reading The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics, a few recommendations in Science,Goodreads told me just now. This book was fourth on the list.
”I think that Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea and not a person. It if is good sf the idea is new, it is stimulating and, probably most important of all, it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification-ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader’s mind so that that mind, like the author’s, begins to create. […] hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create – and enjoy doing it: joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness.”