num_pages: 395
description: Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle, and in the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the late 1950's. Volume 5/5. Contents: - The Little Black Box (1964) - The War With the Fnools (1964) - A Game of Unchance (1964) - Precious Artifact (1964) - Retreat Syndrome (1965) - A Terran Odyssey (1987) - Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday (1966) - Holy Quarrel (1966) - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966) - Not by Its Cover (1968) - Return Match (1967) - Faith of Our Fathers (1967) - The Story to End All Stories (1968) - The Electric Ant (1969) - Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked (1987) - A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (1974) - The Pre-Persons (1974) - The Eye of the Sibyl (1987) - The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree (1987) - The Exit Door Leads In (1979) - Chains of Air, Web of Aether (1980) - Strange Memories of Death (1984) - I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1980, also titled Frozen Journey) - Rautavaara's Case (1980) - The Alien Mind (1981)Other editions of this volume are titled:- The Little Black Box- We can remember it for you wholesale- The Eye of the SibylEditions published by Citadel don't include the story "We can remember it for you wholesale" into Vol. 5, it was placed in their Vol. 2 instead. Apart from that, contents are the same across editions.
language: English
title: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Little Black Box
titlecomplete: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Little Black Box
genres: Anthologies, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Short Story Collection, Collections, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 3116
publisher: Victor Gollancz