The Preserving Machine
413 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1969
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ISBN: 9780586069387
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Grafton
Publication date: 1 October 1987
Description
THE WEIRD & WONDERFUL WORLDS OF PHILIP K. DICK
Robot psychiatrists activated by $20 coins
A war veteran who keeps changing into a blob of organic jelly
Business advice from the souls of the departed
A machine that turns musical scores into small, furry animals
A dog story that recalls Kafka's 'Investigations of a Dog'
These are some of the treasures of imagination in this collection of Philip K. Dick's short fiction. They display all the uncanny inventiveness & sad, quirky humanism of his wonderful novels as well as being a testing ground for many of their later themes.
Comprising:
The Preserving Machine (1953);
War Game (1959);
Upon the Dull Earth (1954);
Roog (1952);
War Veteran (1955);
Top Stand-By Job (1963);
Beyond Lies the Wub (1952);
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966);
Captive Market (1955);
If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1953);
Retreat Syndrome (1964);
The Crawlers (1954);
Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964);
What the Dead Men Say (1964);
Pay for the Printer (1956).
Robot psychiatrists activated by $20 coins
A war veteran who keeps changing into a blob of organic jelly
Business advice from the souls of the departed
A machine that turns musical scores into small, furry animals
A dog story that recalls Kafka's 'Investigations of a Dog'
These are some of the treasures of imagination in this collection of Philip K. Dick's short fiction. They display all the uncanny inventiveness & sad, quirky humanism of his wonderful novels as well as being a testing ground for many of their later themes.
Comprising:
The Preserving Machine (1953);
War Game (1959);
Upon the Dull Earth (1954);
Roog (1952);
War Veteran (1955);
Top Stand-By Job (1963);
Beyond Lies the Wub (1952);
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966);
Captive Market (1955);
If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1953);
Retreat Syndrome (1964);
The Crawlers (1954);
Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964);
What the Dead Men Say (1964);
Pay for the Printer (1956).
