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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume One: The King of the Elves

Volumes: 2, 3, 4

The King of the Elves is the opening installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, expanded from the previous Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one previously unpublished, and one uncollected. This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas including Dick’s first published story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” together with such landmark tales as “The Preserving Machine,” in which an attempt to preserve our fragile cultural heritage takes an unexpected turn, “The Variable Man,” a brilliantly imagined novella encompassing war, time travel, and the varied uses of technology, and the title story, in which Shadrach Jones, owner of a dilapidated gas station in Colorado, stumbles into an ongoing war between trolls and elves, and encounters a fantastic — and utterly unexpected — destiny. Like the best of Dick’s novels, these stories offer a wide variety of narrative and intellectual pleasures, and provide an ideal introduction to one of the singular imaginations of the modern era.

Table of Contents

Stability

Menace React

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

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 488
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781596063402
  • Genres
  • fantasy, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2010