The Father-Thing: Collected Stories 3 - Softcover

Dick, Philip K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586207678 ISBN 13: 9780586207673

Publisher: Voyager, 1998

Synopsis

The third volume in a series of five collections of short stories from one of the most original thinkers in the genre.

This third volume of Philip K Dick’s stories is drawn, like Second Variety (the second volume), from his most prolific period as a short story writer. The 23 items were written in little more than a year, before his first novel appeared.

Many of them are previously uncollected, but also included are several of his most famous stories, such as Foster, You’re Dead, a powerful extrapolation of nuclear-war hysteria, and The Golden Man, a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.

This is a marvellously varied collection by a writer whose posthumous reputation continues to grow and grow.

About this title

About the Author

Philip K Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He attended college for a year at Berkeley. Apart from writing, his main interest was music. He won the Hugo Award for his classic novel of alternative history, The Man in the High Castle (1962). He was married five times and had three children. He died in March 1982.

From the Back Cover

This third volume of Philip K. Dick’s stories is drawn, like 'Second Variety' (the second volume), from his most prolific period as a short story writer. The 23 items were written in little more than a year, before his first novel appeared. Many of them are previously uncollected, but also included are several of his most famous stories, such as ‘Foster, You’re Dead’, a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and ‘The Golden Man’, a very different story about a super evolved mutant human. This is a marvellously varied collection by a writer whose posthumous reputation continues to grow and grow.

“A fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal for the expression of his ideas”
INDEPENDENT

“A Stunning composite portrait of our times”
THE OBSERVER

“The most brilliant sci fi mind on any planet”
ROLLING STONE

Edition details

• Publisher: Voyager
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0586207678
• ISBN 13: 9780586207673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480