Volume II Adjustment Team, Philip K. Dick
Volume II Adjustment Team, Philip K. Dick
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Volume II: Adjustment Team

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 18 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/10/2016


Synopsis

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal world view, exploring the fragile, multifarious nature of reality itself and examining those elements that make us—or fail to make us—fully human. He did as much as anyone to demolish the artificial barrier between genre fiction and "literature," and the best of his work has earned a permanent place in American popular culture.Adjustment Team is the second installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. This wide-ranging collection contains 26 stories and novellas from the extraordinarily productive years of 1952 and 1953, along with extensive story notes. Included here are "The Cookie Lady," an account of a young boy whose relationship with a lonely widow results in a bizarre act of transformation, Second Variety (filmed in 1995 as Screamers), a novella that powerfully evokes a post-apocalyptic society overrun by all-too-human looking robots known as "Claws," and the title story, in which a small accident of timing leads real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to an unexpected confrontation with the malleable nature of a once familiar world. Like its predecessor, The King of the Elves, this new volume offers both an astonishing variety of narrative pleasures and a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of a major American artist.

About Philip K. Dick

One of the greatest authors of the 20th century, with a career spanning 3 decades and 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film; notably: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. Dick won the Hugo Award in 1963 and was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2007 he was the first science fiction to be published by the Library of America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on February 26, 2020

The second volume of this new edition of the collected stories of Philip K. Dick contains some 26 stories from the early period of his career. Written in 1952 and 1953, they represent an astonishing outpouring of talent. This kind of productivity was by no means unique for scriveners of the period. W......more

Goodreads review by Kat on August 04, 2011

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. Philip K. Dick wrote 121 short stories over his career, mostly for science fiction magazines. Subterranean Press has been collecting them in chronological order over several volumes. The first volume, The King of the Elves, contained 22 stories spanning the ye......more

Goodreads review by Rob on January 07, 2012

This is the second of five volumes of the complete short stories of Philip K. Dick. His writing has clearly matured, and many of the stories here touch on the familiar PKD themes of what it means to be human, and is the reality we perceive actually real at all? Cosmic, man!......more

Goodreads review by Chris on June 17, 2020

It took me over 2 years to finish this but it was well worth it.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on October 08, 2024

A history of the next 300-400 years, told in snippets, in no particular order, with lots of irony. Like with Asimov, robots play an important role.......more