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  • Published: 15 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780806537986
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $35.00

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: $35.00

About the author

Philip K. Dick

Philip Kendred Dick was born in Chicago in 1928, but lived most of his life in California, briefly attending the University of California at Berkeley in 1947. Among the most prolific and eccentric of SF writers, Dick's many novels and stories all blend a sharp and quirky imagination with a strong sense of the surreal.

By the time of his death in 1982 he had written 36 science fiction novels and 112 short stories. Notable titles amongst the novels include The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968, later used as the basis for the film Blade Runner), Ubik (1969) and A Scanner Darkly (1977). The Man in the High Castle (1962), perhaps his most painstakingly constructed and chilling novel, won a Hugo Award in 1963.

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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

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