The Complete Short Stories

This collection assembles Philip K. Dick's short science fiction from the 1950s onward: stories in which ordinary workers, salesmen, and minor officials discover that their world, memories, or identities have been fabricated. Recurring devices include androids, drugs, alternate presents, police states, and consumer objects that think. The tone shifts from joke to paranoia within a few pages. Each piece is independent, though themes repeat. The book is a body of short speculative fiction, not the novels such as The Man in the High Castle and not a single future history.

Bound in Duchesse cloth screen-printed with fluorescent inks, each volume a different colour. Presented vertically in a two-part box.