London. 2002. Millennium/Orion Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good

London. 2002. Millennium/Orion Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1857988795. Preface by Philip K. Dick. Introduction by Roger Zelazny. 404 pages. paperback. keywords: American Literature Science Fiction. DESCRIPTION-‘A fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form for the expression of his ideas'-The Independent. The first volume of the definitive five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth-century's greatest SF author, a matchless display of Philip K. Dick's quirky, humorous, idiosyncratically philosophical world view. With one exception, all the stories here were written over a nine-month period between 1951 and 1952, when Dick was in his early twenties and making his first impact as a writer. ‘One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Philip K. Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac. '-Sunday Times. ‘An elusive and incomparable artist. '-Ursula Le Guin. 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. inventory #43984.