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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. There's the beginnings of a great SF writer here, though the stories are mostly pretty typical '50s SF fare. (  ) kernunrex | Aug 8, 2009 |  The first book of a series. The author talks about what is science fiction and what isn't - adventure stories aren't, according to him, but stories with psionics can be, so he is a bit generalising and wobbly as far as that goes - although it is an impossible type task. Further "I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist of an sf story or novel is an idea and not a person. If it is good sf the idea is new, it is stimulating, and, probably most important of all, it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification-ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader's mind so that that mind, like the author's, begins to create. Thus sf is creative and inspires creativity, which mainstream fiction by-and-large does not do. We who read sf (I am speaking as a reader now, not a writer) read it because we love to experience this chain-reaction of ideas being set off in our minds by something we read, something with a new idea in it; hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create -- and enjoy doing it: joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness." Roger Zelazny writes an introduction, including part of a letter that Dick sent him at one stage. Definitely good stuff, consistent quality on display here, which, for a complete stories selection is impressive, coming out at 3.44. Complete Stories Of Philip K. Dick 1 : STABILITY - Philip K. Dick Complete Stories Of Philip K. Dick 1 : ROOG - Philip K. Dick Complete Stories Of Philip K. Dick 1 : THE LITTLE MOVEMENT - Philip K. 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Dick Out of ideas this time. 3.5 out of 5 Barking Guardians are annoying. 3.5 out of 5 Toy soldier orders. 3.5 out of 5 You might be what you eat. 4 out of 5 Not enough space veggies. 3.5 out of 5 Dead man kill mission - me? 4 out of 5 Robots reckon war is illogical human stupid stuff. 3.5 out of 5 Needs brains to avoid space mines. 3.5 out of 5 I'm a recent crop, boss. 3.5 out of 5 "Tiny prospecting ships led a hazardous life, threading their way through the rubble-strewn periphery of the system, avoiding meteor swarms, clouds of hull-eating bacteria, space pirates, peanut-size empires on remote artificial planetoids --" No-one said anything about being turned into mutant freaks though. 3.5 out of 5 Music birds tricky. 2.5 out of 5 You human newbies. 3 out of 5 Defense lag ftl bomb random effects expansion. 4 out of 5 Zeno even immune to amphibian Atom. 3.5 out of 5 Martian City destroyer hunt. 3.5 out of 5 Shoes beyond us now. 3 out of 5 Not much of a boat. 2.5 out of 5 Future lucky Dip is buggy. 3 out of 5 Leaving myself bits and pieces of a future. 4 out of 5 Smashed by those answers. 4 out of 5 Secret party, duck you. 3 out of 5 Do I look like one, short round? 3.5 out of 5 Object violence. 3.5 out of 5 Ganymede getaway fairy story. 3.5 out of 5 Jetsons homelife breakdown. 3 out of 5 http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/07... (  ) bluetyson | Jul 22, 2008 | Terrific bunch of short stories which would make a good introduction to anyone unfamiliar with PKD's work. ( ) stancarey | Oct 6, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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Electronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life -- except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction.Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of seemingly worthless objects: a code key, a ticket stub, a receipt, a length of wire, half a poker chip, a piece of green cloth and a bus token.But when he is confronted by the Special Police, who seem to be investigating Retherick for their own reasons, Jennings finds himself running for his life, realizing that the "worthless" objects are the key to unlocking his recent past, and ensuring that he has a future.
Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. He has been described by The Wall Street Journal as the man who, "More than anyone else…really puts you inside people’s minds."
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