The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford

philip k. dick steven owen godersky roger zelazny

Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in his works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for "The Man in the High Castle," and in the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This volume includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955.

Volume 1/5. 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

Other editions of this volume have the same list of stories, and were published under these titles:
- Beyond Lies the Wub,
- Paycheck and Other Classic Stories,
- The King of the Elves (+1 extra story).

Genres science fictionshort storiesfictionfantasyscience fiction fantasyanthologiesclassicscollectionsamericanspeculative fiction

432 pages, Paperback

First published May 1,1987

This edition

Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1990 by Citadel
ISBN: 9780806511535
ASIN: 0806511532
Language: English

About the author

philip k. dick

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.