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The Preserving Machine

THE WEIRD & WONDERFUL WORLDS OF PHILIP K. DICK

Robot psychiatrists activated by $20 coins

A war veteran who keeps changing into a blob of organic jelly

Business advice from the souls of the departed

A machine that turns musical scores into small, furry animals

A dog story that recalls Kafka's 'Investigations of a Dog'

These are some of the treasures of imagination in this collection of Philip K. Dick's short fiction. They display all the uncanny inventiveness & sad, quirky humanism of his wonderful novels as well as being a testing ground for many of their later themes.

Comprising:

The Preserving Machine (1953);

War Game (1959);

Upon the Dull Earth (1954);

Roog (1952);

War Veteran (1955);

Top Stand-By Job (1963);

Beyond Lies the Wub (1952);

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966);

Captive Market (1955);

If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1953);

Retreat Syndrome (1964);

The Crawlers (1954);

Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964);

What the Dead Men Say (1964);

Pay for the Printer (1956).

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 413
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780586069387
  • Genres
  • fiction, anthologies, collections, classics, american
  • Release date
  • 1987