Philip K. Dick
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- Author: Philip K. Dick
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Before he began writing long fiction, in 1955, Philip K. Dick went through an extraordinarily prolific period as a short-story writer. His first story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” appeared in 1952. In both 1953 and 1954, Dick published twenty-eight short stories per year. His total output in this genre is more than one hundred stories, most of which he wrote early in his career. Many have been reprinted in his collections A Handful of Darkness (1955), The Variable Man, and Other Stories (1957), The Preserving Machine, and Other...
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