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Following The Folio Society’s publication of some of Philip K. Dick’s most celebrated novels, including The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly & Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the author’s estate approached the team with a new idea – an edition of all 118 pieces of short fiction. The result is The Complete Short Stories, a four-volume set celebrating the extraordinary creative output of a singular mind. Limited to 750 copies, this box set features a dizzying array of elements, from the two-part presentation box and bindings, designed by independent studio La Boca, to the carefully chosen endpapers and eye-popping color scheme. Twenty-four illustrators were commissioned to create one image each for a Philip K. Dick short story chosen specially for them. A work of art on every level, The Complete Short Stories is the definitive edition – an essential set not only for science-fiction aficionados, but for anyone with a passion for illustrative art and 20th century literature. Limited to 750 hand-numbered copies Bindings designed by La Boca and bound in Duchesse cloth screen-printed with fluorescent inks The text of this edition follows that of the five-volume Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick published in the UK by Millennium in 1999–2000, with minor emendations. Jonathan Lethem’s fascinating introduction has been revised by the author from a piece originally published in 2002. VOLUME 2 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 • Impostor • James P. Crow • Planet for Transients • Small Town • Souvenir • Survey Team • Prominent Author • Fair Game • The Hanging Stranger • The Eyes Have It • The Golden Man • The Turning Wheel • The Last of the Masters • The Father-Thing • Strange Eden • Tony and the Beetles • Null-O • To Serve the Master • Exhibit Piece 4 volumes 24 illustrations in total by 24 artists, printed on Arctic Volume Ivory paper 2,560 text pages in total Set in Mentor with Futura display Text printed on Abbey Pure FSC certified paper Title pages and contents printed in two colours Coloured page edges Ribbon markers Four volumes each 9¾" x 6¾" Presented in a two-part box designed by La Boca
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.
