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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 to find out how real our reality is and how real we are. And then there are the bizarre parallel worlds and time loops, artificial creatures that have broken free from the power of their creators to take over the entirety of power over the world, including their creators and their descendants, and then there are 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, controlling 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.hellip;

It seems that the chest from which Philip K. Dick drew his amazing ideas and concepts was never empty, at least until 1982, when he passed away, just a few months before the first film adaptation of his novel Do Androids Dream of Electricians, 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 than they are today, so let's be glad that at least in our reality, there was a writer, philosopher, essayist and visionary - Philip K. Dick.

The first volume of the complete collection of short fiction by the famous American writer, philosopher and visionary Philip K. Dick includes stories written in the period from 1947 to 1952: From the very first literary attempts, such as "Stability", "Rogue", "Little Rebels", and "The Little Rebels", to the widely known, in particular, by film adaptations, stories "The Time of Reckoning and The Second Model, which are considered not only a kind of Philip K. Dick's calling card, but also formed entire plot directions in science fiction literature and cinema for many years to come.