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  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780806537986
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $39.99

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale And Other Classic Stories



Repackaged with a stunning new cover, this collection contains 27 classic stories by science fiction legend Philip K. Dick, including the title story, which was made into a major feature film in 1990 as Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone.

Includes the stories that inspired the major motion pictures Total Recall
and The Adjustment Bureau

“The collected stories of Philip K. Dick are awe-inspiring.” —Washington Post

Countless readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick’s work has continued to mount and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention as well as many films based on his stories and novels.

Featuring the story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, which inspired the major motion picture Total Recall, this collection draws from the writer’s earliest fiction, written during the years 1952-55. Also included are fascinating works such as The Adjustment Team (basis of the 2011 movie The Adjustment Bureau), Impostor (basis of the 2001 movie), and many others.

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 now-classic film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep? More recently, Dick’s short story The Minority Report inspired a Steven Spielberg movie as well as a TV series.

The classic stories of Philip K. Dick offer an intriguing glimpse into the early imagination of one of science fiction’s most enduring and respected names.

“A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection.” —Kirkus Reviews

“More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people’s minds.” —Wall Street Journal

With an Introduction by Norman Spinrad

  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780806537986
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Philip K. Dick

PHILIP K. DICK (b. 1928, Chicago, IL; d. 1982, Santa Ana, CA) was a writer of science fiction who published 45 novels and 121 short stories over the course of his lifetime. Much of his work has been adapted to film, notably Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? (which became "Blade Runner"), Total Recall, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly. Dick was the recipient of a Hugo Award in 1963 and 1974, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005; in 2007, he became the first science fiction writer to be included in the Library of America Series. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages.

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Praise for We Can Remember It For You Wholesale And Other Classic Stories

"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds."--The Wall Street Journal
"Philip K. Dick is awe-inspiring."--The Washington Post
"Philip K. Dick's best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable."--The New York Times Book Review