Volume I: The King of the Elves

Dick, expanded from the previous Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one previously unpublished, and one uncollected. 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. This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas including Dick's first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," together with such landmark tales as "The Preserving Machine," in which an attempt to preserve our fragile cultural heritage takes an unexpected turn, The Variable Man, a brilliantly imagined novella encompassing war, time travel, and the varied uses of technology, and the title story, in whi

"Decent collection, good price" according to Un alacrán debajo de una piedra en el desierto. It's interesting having a woman's voice doing the reading. She deepens her voice in dialogues to distinguish characters, and deepens it even more when doing the voices of authority figures. In a way this adds an element of mocking and ridicule to those characters, which is appropriate in stories of crushing bureaucracy and gove