The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
With this collection of stories, readers are drawn into a world with a mysterious twist, a sense of otherness that eludes description. This thought-provoking writing--part science fiction, part mystery, part fantasy--includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction.
With this collection of stories, readers are drawn into a world with a mysterious twist, a sense of otherness that eludes description. This thought-provoking writing--part science fiction, part mystery, part fantasy--includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780806511535 (0806511532)
Publish date: May 1st 2002
Publisher: Citadel
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Anthologies,
Speculative Fiction,
Collections,
Short Stories
Series: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (#1)
I am an obsessive Philip K Dick fan. But this short story collection (all very early works) is his worst. Usually I fly through his novels and stories, propelling by the Dickian drive so peculiar to most of his writing. This collection I slogged through, just waiting for it to end. I am glad tha...
It may have been a bit too soon to start this collection of short stories so closely on the heels of Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick but there were a few stories I had heard about that I really wanted to read. Even if it meant rereading a few of the others so soon.I may have been wrong to do so....
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