The second volume of the definitive five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth century's greatest sf author includes such masterpieces as the title story, with its endless war being fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robot weapons, and "Impostor" where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. In these twenty-seven stories, written and published while America was in the grip of McCarthyism, Philip K. Dick speaks up for ordinary people and against militarism, paranoia and xenophobia - and always in his marvellously varied, quirky and entertainingly idiosyncratic style. Volume 2/5. Includes stories from 1953-1955: - The Cookie Lady - Beyond the Door - Second Variety - Jon's World - The Cosmic Poachers - Progeny - Some Kinds of Life - Martians Come in Clouds - The Commuter - The World She Wanted - A Surface Raid - Project: Earth - The Trouble with Bubbles - Breakfast at Twilight - A Present for Pat - The Hood Maker - Of Withered Apples - Human Is - Adjustment Team - The Impossible Planet - Imposter - James P. Crow - Planet for Transients - Small Town - Souvenir - Survey Team - Prominent Author. Other editions of this volume are titled: - We Can Remember it for You Wholesale [by Citadel], - We Can Remember it for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories [by Citadel], - Adjustment Team. Editions published by Citadel include "We can remember..." instead of "Second Variety" into Volume 2.
Author
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.
