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Summary: THIS is the collection to get
Review: This collection contains ALL of these short stories:Fair game -- Hanging stranger -- Eyes have it -- Golden man -- Turning wheel -- Last of the masters -- Father-thing -- Strange Eden -- Tony and the Beetles -- Null-o -- To serve the master -- Exhibit piece -- Crawlers -- Sales pitch -- Shell game -- Upon the dull Earth -- Foster, you're dead -- Pay for the printer -- War veteran -- Chromium fence -- We can remember it for you wholesale -- Minority report -- Paycheck -- Second variety. The final four in the book inspired the films "Total Recall," "Minority Report," "Paycheck," and "Screamers." This is certainly the best collection for people unfamiliar with PKD to get first.
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Summary: Amazing short story compilation.
Review: This might be the best sci-fi short compilation in existence. Phillip K. Dick is a master at the short story, developing a whole universe and its history in a few short pages to deliver heavy-duty payloads of ideas time after time. No other author in the genre produces such varying and unique ideas through his stories.
Asimov and Heinlein are great, but you get to know the universes they have created and they don't change much. Where these two greats excel in other areas, they cannot get close to the raw creative power of PKD. This is a tour de force: in this one volume are the stories that inspired the movies "Total Recall," "Screamers," "Minority Report," and "Paycheck."
I highly recommend this book.
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