Fantastic Stories Present the Philip K. Dick Super Pack: A Positronic Book (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781515422921)

Thirteen early stories by Philip K. Dick are gathered here in one substantial Positronic Super Pack, offering a concentrated look at the ideas that made him one of the most influential science fiction writers of the twentieth century. Long before Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and The Adjustment Bureau brought his name to film audiences, Dick was already writing stories that questioned reality, identity, memory, authority, war, consumer culture, and the unstable border between the human and the artificial. His fiction repeatedly asks whether the world can be trusted-and whether the people, machines, governments, and corporations shaping that world can be trusted either.

This collection includes:

"The Eyes Have It"

"Beyond the Door"

"Beyond Lies the Wub"

"Mr. Spaceship"

"The Skull"

"The Crystal Crypt"

"The Defenders"

"The Hanging Stranger"

"The Gun"

"Tony and the Beetles"

"The Variable Man"

"Piper in the Woods"

"Second Variety"

• Together these stories show Dick working across compact comic satire, alien encounter, time travel, military paranoia, postwar dread, political manipulation, technological anxiety, and the nightmare possibility that humanity may no longer understand the systems it has created. For readers of classic science fiction, Golden Age magazine fiction, dystopian SF, robot fiction, Cold War science fiction, and the literary roots of modern screen science fiction, this Super Pack offers thirteen complete stories in one convenient volume. If you enjoyed this book, search for "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and explore the other exciting Super Packs in the series. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.