With a Preface by the Author and an Introduction by Roger Zelazny "The collected stories of
Philip K. Dick are awe inspiring." -- The Washington Post Readers worldwide consider Philip
K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely
death in 1982 interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been
enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now presented
annually to a distinguished work of science fiction and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted
to the study and promulgation of his works. This collection draws from the writer's earliest
short and medium-length fiction (including several previously unpublished stories) written
during the years 1952-1955 and features such fascinating stories as Paycheck (adapted as a
major motion picture starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman) Beyond Lies the Wub The Short
Happy Life of the Brown Oxford The Variable Man and many others. Here readers will find
Dick's initial explorations of the themes he so brilliantly brought to life in his later work.
Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle .
In the last year of his life the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream
of Electric Sheep? More recently Dick's short story The Minority Report inspired Steven
Spielberg's movie of the same title. The classic stories of Philip K. Dick offer an
intriguing glimpse into the imagination of one of science fiction's most enduring and respected
names. "Philip K. Dick's best books always describe a future that is both entirely
recognizable and utterly unimaginable." -- The New York Times Book Review "More than anyone
else in the field Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." -- The Wall Street Journal
