The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (1987)

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a collection of 118 science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Underwood-Miller in 1987 as a five volume set. See Philip K. Dick bibliography for information about the mass market reprints.

Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Planet Stories, If, Galaxy Science Fiction, Imagination, Space Science Fiction, Fantastic Story Magazine, Amazing Stories, Future Science Fiction, Cosmos, Fantasy Fiction, Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, Fantastic Universe, Science Fiction Quarterly, Astounding, Science Fiction Adventures, Science Fiction Stories, Orbit, Satellite Science Fiction, Imaginative Tales, Fantastic, Worlds of Tomorrow, Escapade, Famous Science Fiction, Niekas, Rolling Stone College Papers, Interzone, Playboy, Omni and The Yuba City High Times.

Contents

Volume I, Beyond Lies the Wub

Preface from a letter to John Betancourt

Foreword by Steven Owen Godersky

Introduction by Roger Zelazny

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

Notes

Volume II, Second Variety

Introduction by Norman Spinrad

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

Impostor

James P. Crow

Planet for Transients

Small Town

Souvenir

Survey Team

Prominent Author

Notes

Volume III, The Father-Thing

Introduction by John Brunner

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

The Crawlers

Sales Pitch

Shell Game

Upon the Dull Earth

Foster, You’re Dead

Pay for the Printer

War Veteran

The Chromium Fence

Misadjustment

A World of Talent

Psi-Man Heal My Child!

Notes

Volume IV, The Days of Perky Pat

"How Do You Know You're Reading Philip K. Dick?", by James Tiptree, Jr.

"Autofac"

"Service Call"

"Captive Market"

"The Mold of Yancy"

"The Minority Report"

"Recall Mechanism"

"The Unreconstructed M"

"Explorers We"

"War Game"

"If There Were No Benny Cemoli"

"Novelty Act"

"Waterspider"

"What the Dead Men Say"

"Orpheus with Clay Feet"

"The Days of Perky Pat"

"Stand-by"

"What'll We Do with Ragland Park?"

"Oh, to Be a Blobel!"

Notes

Volume V, The Little Black Box

Introduction by Thomas M. Disch

"The Little Black Box"

"The War with the Fnools"

"A Game of Unchance"

"Precious Artifact"

"Retreat Syndrome"

"A Terran Odyssey"

"Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday"

"Holy Quarrel"

"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"

"Not By Its Cover"

"Return Match"

"Faith of Our Fathers"

"The Story to End All Stories for Harlan Ellison’s Anthology Dangerous Visions"

"The Electric Ant"

"Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked"

"A Little Something for Us Tempunauts"

"The Pre-persons"

"The Eye of the Sibyl"

"The Day Mr. Computer Fell out of its Tree"

"The Exit Door Leads In"

"Chains of Air, Web of Aether"

"Strange Memories of Death"

"I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon"

"Rautavaara's Case"

"The Alien Mind"

Notes

Missing Short Stories

The following stories are ones that were left out of this collection.

"Goodbye, Vincent" (unpublished until after this collection was compiled)

"Menace React" (only a fragment remains, and it was unpublished until after this collection was compiled)

"Time Pawn" (1954; later expanded into the 1960 novel Dr. Futurity)

"Vulcan's Hammer" (1956; later expanded into the 1960 novel Vulcan's Hammer)

"A Glass of Darkness" (1956; later expanded into the 1957 novel The Cosmic Puppets)

Publication states

The set was published in four states:

3 copies were quarterbound in calfskin with a handmade slipcase and the (deceased in 1982) author's signature tipped in.

100 copies were bound in red buckram, slipcased, with the author's signature taken from his canceled checks, laid in.

405 copies were bound in tan and brown cloth, slipcased, but without signature. (400 of these are numbered from 101–500 and 5 are presentation copies.)

800 copies were bound with a yellow-orange binding and did not have a slipcase.

The volumes were not sold individually. All sets except the trade edition (800 copies) also included a chapbook, "Brief Synopsis for An Alternate World Novel: The Acts of Paul, an outline for a novel that was never written.