Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dick’s most dazzling and resonant stories which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers. In “The Days of Perky Pat ” people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth’s real inhabitants. “Adjustment Team” looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In “Autofac ” one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon ” we follow the story of one man whose very reality may be nothing more than a nightmare. The collection also includes such classic stories as “The Minority Report ” the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie and “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ” the basis for the film Total Recall. With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent distillation of one of American literature's most searching imaginations.
