This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas written in 1953 and 1954, along with extensive and valuable story notes. Included here are a number of bona fide PKD classics, among them the title story, the brilliantly conceived account of a bizarre, ultimately catastrophic resurrection, 'The Father-Thing,' in which a young boy comes to realize that his once familiar father has somehow changed, and 'The Golden Man' (filmed in 2007 as 'Next'),...

A police officer assigned to capture an elusive drug dealer does not realize that the man he is chasing is really himself--a situation brought about by the drug's capability of producing split personalities in its users.

The inspiration for Blade Runner. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They...

Bruce Stevens is successful young buyer for the CBB discount store in Reno and he cruises around the Western States in his '55 Mercury checking out likely deals. But when he meets Susan Faine, the part-owner of an ailing typewriter store in Boise, idaho, a more attractive proposition comes his way. Susan is ten years older than Bruce and recently divored. They've also met before, when she was his teacher in fifth grade. But she wants someone to manage...

In a world where time has begun moving backward, powerful prophet Anarch Peak is among those who have risen from the dead. That may not last long, as a number of groups seek to send him back to the grave.

The magnificent and final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine.

The employees of an agency dedicated to blocking telepathic spying begin receiving messages from their supposedly dead boss, Glen Runciter, while reality seems to slip into the past.