The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a collection of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 stories by Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...

. It was first published by Underwood-Miller

Underwood-Miller

Underwood-Miller Inc. was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing house founded in 1976. It was founded by Tim Underwood, a San Francisco book and art dealer, and Chuck Miller, a Pennsylvania used book dealer, after the two had met at a convention.For their first book,...

 in 1987 as a five volume set. See Philip K. Dick bibliography for information about the mass market reprints.

Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Planet Stories

Planet Stories

Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on other planets, and was initially focused on a young readership. Malcolm Reiss was editor or editor-in-chief for all of its 71...

, If

If (magazine)

If was an American science fiction magazine launched in March 1952 by Quinn Publications, owned by James L. Quinn. Quinn hired Paul W. Fairman to be the first editor, but early circulation figures were disappointing, and Quinn fired Fairman after only three issues. Quinn then took over the...

, Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by an Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break in to the American market. World Editions hired as editor H. L...

, Imagination

Imagination (magazine)

Imagination was an American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in October 1950 by Raymond Palmer's Clark Publishing Company. The magazine was sold almost immediately to Greenleaf Publishing Company, owned by William Hamling, who published and edited it from the third issue,...

, Space Science Fiction

Space Science Fiction

Space Science Fiction was a science fiction magazine published by Space Publications, Inc. of New York and The Archer Press Ltd. of London that ran for eight issues from May 1952 to September 1953. Space was edited by Lester del Rey and featured a monthly book review column by George O. Smith...

, Fantastic Story Magazine, Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...

, Future, Cosmos, Fantasy Fiction, Beyond Fantasy Fiction

Beyond Fantasy Fiction

Beyond Fantasy Fiction was a US fantasy fiction magazine edited by H. L. Gold, with only ten issues published from 1953 to 1955. The last two issues carried the cover title of Beyond Fiction, but the publication's name for copyright purposes remained as before.Although not a commercial success, it...

, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories

Startling Stories

Startling Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1955 by Standard Magazines. It was initially edited by Mort Weisinger, who was also the editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories, Standard's other science fiction title. Startling ran a lead novel in every issue;...

, Fantastic Universe

Fantastic Universe

Fantastic Universe was a U.S. science fiction magazine which began publishing in the 1950s. It ran for 69 issues, from June 1953 to March 1960, under two different publishers. It was part of the explosion of science fiction magazine publishing in the 1950s in the United States, and was moderately...

, Science Fiction Quarterly, Astounding, Science Fiction Adventures, Science Fiction Stories, Orbit

Orbit

In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space, for example the orbit of a planet around the center of a star system, such as the Solar System...

, Satellite, Imaginative Tales, Fantastic

Fantastic (magazine)

Fantastic was an American digest-size fantasy and science fiction magazine, published from 1952 to 1980. It was founded by Ziff-Davis as a fantasy companion to Amazing Stories. Early sales were good, and Ziff-Davis quickly decided to switch Amazing from pulp format to digest, and to cease...

, Worlds of Tomorrow, Escapade, Famous Science Fiction, Niekas

Niekas

Niekas is a science fiction fanzine published from 1962–1998 by Ed Meskys of New Hampshire. It won the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Fanzine, and was twice more nominated, losing in 1966 to ERB-dom and in 1989 to File 770.Originally, Meskys Niekas (from Lithuanian: nothing or nobody) is a science...

, Rolling Stone College Papers, Interzone

Interzone (magazine)

Interzone is an award-winning British fantasy and science fiction magazine. Published since 1982, Interzone is the eighth longest-running science fiction magazine in history and the longest-running British SF magazine...

, Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

, Omni

Omni (magazine)

OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction...

and The Yuba City High Times.

Volume I, Beyond Lies the Wub

• Preface, from a letter to John Betancourt
• Foreword, by Steven Owen Godersky
• Introduction, by Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
  
• "Stability"
• "Roog
  Roog
  Philip K. Dick sold approximately fifteen short stories himself before becoming a client of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency. "Roog" was his first sale but not his first published story.- Story :...
  
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• "The Little Movement
  The Little Movement
  "The Little Movement" is a short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick...
  
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• "Beyond Lies the Wub
  Beyond Lies the Wub
  "Beyond Lies the Wub" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was his first published story, originally appearing in Planet Stories in July, 1952.-Plot:...
  
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• "The Gun"
• "The Skull
  The Skull (short story)
  "The Skull" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952 in If, and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick...
  
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• "The Defenders
  The Defenders (short story)
  "The Defenders" is a 1953 science fiction short story by American author Philip K. Dick, and the basis for Dick's 1964 novel The Penultimate Truth. It is one of several of his short stories to be expanded into a novel....
  
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• "Mr. Spaceship
  Mr. Spaceship
  "Mr. Spaceship" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953 in Imagination, and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick...
  
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• "Piper in the Woods
  Piper in the Woods
  Piper in the Woods is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953 in Imagination, and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick...
  
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• "The Infinites
  The Infinites
  The Infinites is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953 in the May issue of Planet Stories, and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick...
  
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• "The Preserving Machine
  The Preserving Machine (short story)
  "The Preserving Machine" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in 1953 in the magazine F&SF. It is also the title story of the collection of the same name, The Preserving Machine....
  
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• "Expendable
  Expendable (short story)
  "Expendable" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1953...
  
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• "The Variable Man
  The Variable Man
  The Variable Man is a novella written and sold by Philip K. Dick before he had an agent. It was first published in Space Science Fiction , Vol. 2 No. 2, July 1953 and Space Science Fiction, September 1953 with the US publication illustrated by Alex Ebel...
  
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• "The Indefatigable Frog
  The Indefatigable Frog
  "The Indefatigable Frog" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in the July 1953 edition of Fantastic Story Magazine, and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick...
  
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• "The Crystal Crypt
  The Crystal Crypt
  The Crystal Crypt is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in the January 1952 edition of Planet Stories and later published in Beyond Lies the Wub in 1988....
  
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• "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
  The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
  "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in the January, 1954 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and later in Beyond Lies the Wub in 1984 and in The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, a collection of Philip K...
  
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• "The Builder
  The Builder (short story)
  "The Builder" is a short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Amazing Stories, December, 1953-January 1954 with illustration by Ed Emshwiller. Dick had submitted many short stories to magazines and made approximately fifteen sales before becoming a client of the Scott Meredith...
  
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• "Meddler
  Meddler (short story)
  "Meddler" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Future Science Fiction, October, 1954 with illustration by Virgil Finlay. Dick had submitted many short stories to magazines and made approximately fifteen sales before becoming a client of the Scott Meredith...
  
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• "Paycheck
  Paycheck (short story)
  "Paycheck" is a short story by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, written on July 31, 1952 and first published in the June, 1953 issue of Imagination...
  
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• "The Great C
  The Great C
  The Great C is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953 in Fantastic Story Magazine and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick...
  
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• "Out in the Garden
  Out in the Garden
  Out In The Garden is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953 in Fantasy Fiction and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick...
  
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• "The King of the Elves
  The King of the Elves (short story)
  "The King of the Elves" is a short story by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and first published in the September 1953 issue of Beyond Fantasy Fiction.-Plot summary:...
  
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• "Colony
  Colony (short story)
  "Colony" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Galaxy magazine, June 1953. The plot centers on an expedition to an uncharted planet, on which the dominant, predatory life form is capable of precise mimicry of human technology.-About the story:Accompanying the...
  
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• "Prize Ship
  Prize Ship
  Prize Ship is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1954 in Thrilling Wonder Stories and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick...
  
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• "Nanny
  Nanny (short story)
  Nanny is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1955 in Startling Stories and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. It has since been republished several times, including in Beyond Lies the Wub in 1988.- Synopsis :...
  
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• Notes

Volume II, Second Variety

• Introduction, by Norman Spinrad
  Norman Spinrad
  Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author.Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco,...
  
  
• "The Cookie Lady
  The Cookie Lady
  The Cookie Lady is a short story by Philip K. Dick.Bernard "Bubber" Surle is a young boy who enjoys visiting Mrs. Drew, a lonely old widow who bakes him cookies. He visits her after school every day, and reads to her after eating cookies. Mrs. Drew, who has almost no company, enjoys having him. One...
  
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• "Beyond the Door"
• "Second Variety
  Second Variety
  "Second Variety" is an influential short story by Philip K. Dick first published in Space Science Fiction magazine, in May 1953. It is one of Dick's many stories in which nuclear war has rendered the Earth's surface an uninhabitable, gray ash pile, and the only things remaining are killer robots...
  
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• "Jon’s World"
• "The Cosmic Poachers"
• "Progeny"
• "Some Kinds of Life"
• "Martians Come in Clouds"
• "The Commuter
  The Commuter
  The Commuter is a science-fiction short story written by Philip K. Dick.-Plot:It tells the story of a railway station manager who encounters the eponymous commuter who testifies to the existence of a town that cannot be found on any normal map...
  
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• "The World She Wanted"
• "A Surface Raid"
• "Project: Earth"
• "The Trouble with Bubbles
  The Trouble with Bubbles
  "The Trouble With Bubbles" is a 1953 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future where mankind has attempted to reach other intelligent lifeforms through space exploration, and found nothing...
  
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• "Breakfast at Twilight
  Breakfast at Twilight
  "Breakfast at Twilight" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was received by the Scott Meredith Literary Agency on January 17, 1953 and first published in Amazing Stories, July 1954....
  
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• "A Present for Pat"
• "The Hood Maker"
• "Of Withered Apples"
• "Human Is
  Human Is
  Human Is is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Startling Stories, Winter 1955. The plot centers on the crisis facing a woman whose cold and emotionally abusive husband returns, from a survey mission to the dying planet Rexor IV, changed for the better—due to...
  
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• "Adjustment Team
  Adjustment Team
  "Adjustment Team" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Orbit Science Fiction with illustration by Faragasso. It was later reprinted in The Sands of Mars and other Stories in 1958, The Book of Philip K...
  
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• "The Impossible Planet"
• "Impostor
  Impostor (short story)
  "Impostor" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Astounding magazine in June, 1953. Impostor, a feature film based on the story, was released in 2002 starring Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe and Vincent D'Onofrio...
  
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• "James P. Crow"
• "Planet for Transients
  Planet for Transients
  "Planet for Transients" is a 1953 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future where humans of the original variety wear lead-lined spacesuits and take other precautions against the lethal levels of surface radiation on Earth. Other varieties of human have evolved to...
  
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• "Small Town"
• "Souvenir"
• "Survey Team"
• "Prominent Author"
• Notes

Volume III, The Father-Thing

• Introduction, by John Brunner
  John Brunner
  John Brunner may refer to:* Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet , a.k.a. John Tomlinson Brunner, British industrialist and Liberal Member of Parliament* John L...
  
  
• "Fair Game
  Fair Game (story)
  Fair Game is a science fiction short story written by Philip K. Dick in 1953 and first published in 1959 in If Magazine. The story was re-published in the third collected volume of Dick's short stories, The Father-thing in 1987.-Plot:...
  
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• "The Hanging Stranger"
• "The Eyes Have It"
• "The Golden Man
  The Golden Man
  "The Golden Man" is an 11600-word science fiction novelette by Philip K. Dick. It was received by the Scott Meredith Literary Agency on June 24, 1953, and first published in the April 1954 issue of If magazine. The story was illustrated by Kelly Freas in its original publication...
  
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• "The Turning Wheel
  The Turning Wheel
  The Turning Wheel is an 8,400 word science fiction novelette by Philip K. Dick. The Scott Meredith Literary Agency received the submission on July 8, 1952 and it was published in Science Fiction Stories No. 2, 1954....
  
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• "The Last of the Masters
  The Last of the Masters
  "The Last of the Masters" is a science fiction novelette by Philip K. Dick. The original manuscript of the story was received by the Scott Meredith Literary Agency on July 15, 1953, and the story was published by the Hanro Corporation in the final issue of Orbit Science Fiction in 1954. It has...
  
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• "The Father-Thing
  The Father-thing
  The Father-Thing is a 1954 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. The story, written from a child's point of view, concerns the replacement of a boy's father by a replicated version. Only the child sees the difference and has to recruit other children to help him reveal the truth...
  
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• "Strange Eden
  Strange Eden
  Strange Eden is a 1954 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It tells of a planetary survey team that encounters an immortal woman on an uninhabited planet. The woman reveals that her race has visited Earth over the entire course of human history and were the inspiration for ancient gods...
  
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• "Tony and the Beetles"
• "Null-O
  Null-O
  "Null-O" is a 1958 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. This rather brief story examines the concept of totally unempathic and 'logical' humans in an obvious parody of the plot and concepts of The Players of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt. These beings view individual collections of matter, i.e...
  
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• "To Serve the Master"
• "Exhibit Piece
  Exhibit Piece
  Exhibit Piece is a 1954 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. The story is an early exploration of the concept of shifting realities, so common in the writer's fiction later on. The protagonist is a future historian of the 20th century and finds himself shifting in time from the future to...
  
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• "The Crawlers
  The Crawlers
  The Crawlers is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in Imagination magazine, July 1954 under the title "Foundling Home"....
  
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• "Sales Pitch
  Sales Pitch
  Sales Pitch is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in Future Science Fiction magazine, June 1954. The premise of omni-present, intrusive and even aggressive advertising and marketing is as relevant as ever. In the end of the story, the character is driven mad by a robot...
  
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• "Shell Game
  Shell Game (short story)
  "Shell Game" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. "Shell Game" was submitted to the Scott Meredith Literary Agency and received by SMLA on December 12, 1953. First published in Galaxy Science Fiction Sept...
  
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• "Upon the Dull Earth
  Upon the Dull Earth
  "Upon the Dull Earth" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in November 1954 in Beyond Fantasy Fiction.-Plot summary:...
  
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• "Foster, You’re Dead
  Foster, You're Dead!
  "Foster, You're Dead!" is a 1955 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Star Science Fiction Stories No.3....
  
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• "Pay for the Printer
  Pay for the Printer
  Pay for the Printer is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in Satellite Science Fiction, October 1956.- Plot :...
  
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• "War Veteran
  War Veteran
  War Veteran is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in If magazine in March 1955.-Plot summary:The plot concerns an old man who claims to have travelled back in time from a future in which Earth has lost a devastating war to its own Martian and Venusian colonies...
  
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• "The Chromium Fence
  The Chromium Fence
  The Chromium Fence is a 1955 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in Imagination magazine.The story is set in a future where political differences have been reduced to trivialities, the purists are pitted against the naturalists...
  
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• "Misadjustment"
• "A World of Talent
  A World of Talent
  "A World of Talent" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, October 1954.- Plot summary:...
  
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• "Psi-Man Heal My Child!
  Psi-man Heal My Child!
  "Psi-man Heal My Child!" is a short story written by Philip K. Dick in 1955. It also has the alternate titles Psi-man and Outside Consultant and appeared in Dick's short story collection Second Variety....
  
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• Notes

Volume IV, The Days of Perky Pat

• How Do You Know You’re Reading Philip K. Dick?, by James Tiptree, Jr.
• "Autofac
  Autofac
  "Autofac" is a 1955 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick that features one of the earliest treatments of self-replicating machines. It is set some years after an apocalyptic world war has devastated Earth's civilizations, leaving only a network of hardened robot "autofacs" in operation to...
  
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• "Service Call
  Service Call
  "Service Call" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Science Fiction Stories, July 1955. The plot centers on a service agent for an authoritarian bio-technology from an alternate future who appears in the contemporary USA....
  
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• "Captive Market"
• "The Mold of Yancy
  The Mold of Yancy
  "The Mold of Yancy" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1955. It is published in volume four of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, The Days of Perky Pat....
  
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• "The Minority Report"
• "Recall Mechanism
  Recall Mechanism
  Recall Mechanism is a science fiction short story by American author Philip K. Dick, first published in 1959. and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. IV, The Days of Perky Pat .-Synopsis:...
  
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• "The Unreconstructed M"
• "Explorers We
  Explorers We
  Explorers We is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, January 1959.In this story some aliens come to Earth as perfect replicas of a group of astronauts who died during a mission to Mars...
  
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• "War Game"
• "If There Were No Benny Cemoli
  If There Were No Benny Cemoli
  "If There Were No Benny Cemoli" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the December, 1963 issue of Galaxy magazine with illustration by Lutjens....
  
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• "Novelty Act
  Novelty Act
  "Novelty Act" is a short story by Philip K. Dick. It involves a dystopian future in which the characters' lives are based on entertaining the First Lady of the United States with "novelty acts"....
  
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• "Waterspider
  Waterspider
  "Waterspider" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1964 in If magazine.Dick's story "Waterspider" features Poul Anderson as one of the main characters. The author refers also to himself and his stories, "The Variable Man" and "The Defenders". He also mentions...
  
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• "What the Dead Men Say
  What the Dead Men Say
  What the Dead Men Say is a science fiction novella by Philip K. Dick first published in Worlds of Tomorrow magazine in June 1964. The manuscript, originally titled "Man With a Broken Match", was received by Dick's agent on 15 April 1963.-Plot:...
  
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• "Orpheus with Clay Feet"
• "The Days of Perky Pat
  The Days of Perky Pat
  The Days of Perky Pat is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1963 in Amazing magazine. Elements of the story would be incorporated into Dick's 1965 novel, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.- Plot :...
  
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• "Stand-By"
• "What'll We Do with Ragland Park?
  What'll We Do With Ragland Park?
  What'll We Do With Ragland Park? is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in Amazing Stories magazine in 1963.Notes:...
  
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• "Oh, to Be a Blobel!
  Oh, to be a Blobel!
  "Oh, to be a Blobel!" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Galaxy magazine, February 1964. The plot centers on the post-traumatic psychological state of former espionage agents on both sides of the Human-Blobel war. Blobels are presented as a single-cell,...
  
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• Notes

Volume V, The Little Black Box

• Introduction, by Thomas M. Disch
  Thomas M. Disch
  Thomas Michael Disch was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W...
  
  
• "The Little Black Box"
• "The War with the Fnools
  The War with the Fnools
  "The War with the Fnools" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Galaxy magazine in 1969.The Fnools are invaders in the guise of two-foot-tall human beings. They take on the guise of Volkswagen mechanics, ethnic circus performers, and other similar business...
  
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• "A Game of Unchance"
• "Precious Artifact"
• "Retreat Syndrome"
• "A Terran Odyssey"
• "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday"
• "Holy Quarrel"
• "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
  We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
  "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" is a novelette by Philip K. Dick first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in April 1966. It features a classic meshing of reality, false memory and real memory...
  
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• "Not By Its Cover
  Not by Its Cover
  "Not by Its Cover" is a sequel to Philip K. Dick's first published science fiction short story, "Beyond Lies the Wub." The story continues the latter's theme of immortality, although not focusing on a living Wub itself, but rather its fur...
  
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• "Return Match"
• "Faith of Our Fathers
  Faith of our Fathers
  "Faith of Our Fathers" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in the anthology Dangerous Visions . It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1968....
  
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• "The Story to End All Stories for Harlan Ellison’s Anthology Dangerous Visions"
• "The Electric Ant
  The Electric Ant
  The Electric Ant is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine in October 1969....
  
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• "Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked"
• "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts
  A Little Something For Us Tempunauts
  "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in the anthology Final Stage in 1975.-Plot summary:...
  
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• "The Pre-Persons"
• "The Eye of the Sibyl
  The Eye of The Sibyl
  The Eye of The Sibyl is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was written sometime around 1975, but not published until 1987 when it was included in volume 5 of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, and has been reprinted since in of this book such as the U.S...
  
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• "The Day Mr. Computer Fell out of its Tree"
• "The Exit Door Leads In
  The Exit Door Leads In
  The Exit Door Leads In is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in 1979."The Exit Door Leads In" was written for Rolling Stone College Papers, a short-lived publication. It is unusual among Dick's stories in that it was written at the request of the editors...
  
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• "Chains of Air, Web of Aether"
• "Strange Memories of Death"
• "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
  I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
  I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon is the title of a short story by Philip K. Dick....
  
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• "Rautavaara's Case
  Rautavaara's Case
  "Rautavaara's Case" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in 1980 in Omni magazine and subsequently in the 1985 short story collection I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon...
  
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• "The Alien Mind"
• Notes

Publication states

The set was published in four states:

• 3 copies were quarterbound in calfskin with a handmade slipcase and the author's signature tipped in.
• 100 copies were bound in red buckram, slipcased, with the author's signature taken from his canceled checks, laid in.
• 505 copies were bound in tan and brown cloth, slipcased, but without signature or numbering.
• 800 copies were bound with a yellow-orange binding and did not have a slipcase.

The volumes were not sold individually. All sets except the trade edition (800 copies) also included a chapbook, "Brief Synopsis for An Alternate World Novel: The Acts of Paul, an outline for a novel that was never written.