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Seven Stories by Philip K. Dick
2010
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This is a collection of seven short science fiction novels by Philip K. Dick written in the 1950s. Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. This early time period from Dick's life was a difficult and impoverished time for him. He sold his first story in 1951. The seven stories in this collection were written by Dick for several popular science fiction and fantasy magazines that were published in the 1950s. These stories are selected from more than 120 short science fiction novels that he wrote for the magazines. The seven stories are "Beyond Lies the Wub," "Beyond the Door," "The Crystal Crypt," "The Defenders," "The Eyes Have It," "The Gun," and "The Skull." It is a pleasure to collect and publish these stories in this new, high quality, and affordable edition.
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Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
Author · 199 books

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.

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