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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale Introduction of the ebook: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale
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Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick’s works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick’s works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.This collection includes all of the writer’s earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, The Cookie Lady, The World She Wanted, and many others.
“A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection.” — Kirkus Reviews
“The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring.” — The Washington Post
“More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people’s minds.” — Wall Street Journal …more
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We Can Remember it for You Wholesale, the second volume of Philip K. Dick’s collected short stories, represents both a significant advance and a noticeable decline. The majority of these tales—the remarkable exception being the title story, written in 1965—were composed between August of ‘52 and April of ‘53, whereas the previous volume, The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, contained work composed primarily in ‘51 (when Dick sold his first story) until the early months of ‘52. The tales of
We Can Remember it for You Wholesale, the second volume of Philip K. Dick’s collected short stories, represents both a significant advance and a noticeable decline. The majority of these tales—the remarkable exception being the title story, written in 1965—were composed between August of ‘52 and April of ‘53, whereas the previous volume, The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, contained work composed primarily in ‘51 (when Dick sold his first story) until the early months of ‘52. The tales of the second volume are on the whole better constructed, slicker and safer than the first. Dick was now a full time writer, striving—with limited success—to make a living, and he was obviously doing his best to write stories he could easily sell. The best stories in Brown Oxford are wilder, more characteristically Dickian, but Wholesale gives us a more polished Philip K. Dick, one who was learned who to succeed in the science fiction market place.
Fortunately for us, although Dick tried his best to be mainstream, he could never quite stop being Dick.
The stories here reveal, at one time or another, all of Dick’s central concerns: nuclear devastation, immortal robot weapons, the security state sacrificing freedom for order, alternate realities, unreliable mental constructs, temporal anomalies and paradoxes. Through it all, he speaks out courageously against racism, militarism, ideological hatred, and mindless nationalism, and does so with just enough classic Dickian paranoia to keep a sensitive reader awake and ever alert to his environment.
My favorites here? I like almost all of them, but offhand my favorite 9 out of the 27 stories—not necessarily the best—are: “The Cookie Lady,” “I Can Remember it For You Wholesale,” “Prominent Author,” “The World She Wanted,” “Project Earth,” “Martians Come in Clouds, “Imposter,” “Human Is” and “Adjustment Team.” Ask me tomorrow, though, and you might get a different list of stories. …more
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