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Philip K. Dick /1928-1982/ is an iconic American science fiction writer, philosopher and visionary whose work has had a profound impact on the entire world of science fiction and fantasy literature and cinema. One of the most important themes in Philip K. Dick's work, to which the writer constantly returns, is the question of how real our reality is and how real we are. There are also bizarre parallel worlds and time loops, artificial creatures that have freed themselves from the power of their creators to take over the entirety of power over the world, including their creators and their descendants, as well as strange creatures and organisations that secretly go about their bizarre business in the midst of everyday life, space travel and intergalactic wars, contacts with representatives of other civilisations, with whom it is not always possible to find a common language, totalitarian governments and mega-corporations that control space and time, and again a reality so similar to ours, but still subtly different, into which the protagonist suddenly falls, who in fact never wanted all these miracles, but only wanted a quiet happy life, just like you and me...

It seems that the chest from which Philip K. Dick drew his stunning ideas and concepts was never empty, at least until 1982, when he passed away, just a few months short of the first film adaptation of his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", which made him famous. Philip K. Dick's oeuvre includes nearly five dozen novels and over a hundred short stories."

With this complete collection of short fiction, we pay tribute to the extraordinary personality of Philip K. Dick and the impact his work has had on all of modern fiction and, to a certain extent, literature in general. Without Philip K. Dick, many things would be different from the way we know them today, so let's be glad that at least in our reality, there was a writer, philosopher, essayist, and visionary - Philip K. Dick.

The third volume of the complete collection of short fiction by the famous American writer, philosopher, and visionary Philip K. Dick includes stories written between 1954 and 1963, including such well-known stories as Minority Report (film adaptation), "Autofac" (adapted into the 2017 television series "The Electric Dreams of Philip K. Dick") and many other equally inventive, unconventional and fascinating works that shaped entire plotlines in science fiction and film for many years to come.