Free Philip K. Dick: Download 11 Great Science Fiction Stories

Comments (11)

1. Nicole Cushing says . . . | January 3, 2012 / 4:17 pm

   Great announcement, but I have one small quibble: it’s incorrect to say PKD is the only SF author in the Library of America. Vonnegut is in there with work that seems SF to me (ditto with Lovecraft). There’s also an SF author or two represented in the Library of America’s AMERICAN FANTASTIC TALES boxed set.

2. thimblerig says . . . | January 7, 2012 / 2:04 pm

   “Adjustment Team” is also available for free at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adjustment_Team. Click on “print/export” at left side of page to download.

3. Amber says . . . | January 10, 2012 / 11:37 am

   As a librarian, I would classify Lovecraft as HORROR and Vonnegut as LITERATURE, so actually, that is absolutely correct about PKD being the only SF author in the Library of America.

   Lovecraft and Vonnegut definitely used SF themes in various stories but that element was not the core of either of their work.

4. eric says . . . | February 9, 2012 / 12:55 pm

   can’t things fall in multiple categories? much lovecraft is clearly SF by most definitions, since his conception of magic is clearly that it represents higher science; charlie stross has argued (with tounge ambiguously planted in cheek) for his classification as a writer of political thrillers; and he’s clearly also horror.

   my quibble with this is that there are many, many far more literary writers in SF. Most of Dick’s work is stylistically sloppy, his novels riddled with the plot-holes of someone who wrote a novel a month. much of the later stuff is superb, but the same could be said of almost everything delaney’s ever written. stylistically, dick was a hack. his ideas were brilliant, and the stories and the metaphors they trade in are often brilliant as well, but it’s not really a literary brilliance in the usual sense.

5. Jessica says . . . | February 12, 2012 / 1:31 am

   Thanks! : )

6. Ron Graves says . . . | March 22, 2012 / 8:18 am

   @eric

   Absolutely agree about the plot-holes – Counterclock World, for example, has so many it could be used as a sieve.

   Just one example – there are way too many to list – a guy opening a packet of whiskers and applying them to his chin. To meet the book’s criteria (time running backwards, for those who haven’t read it), he should slosh his razor in a bowl of soapy, whiskery, water, and “shave” in reverse, the razor applying the whiskers.

   As for the dead “undying” while still buried – why would they? It makes no sense.

7. Ron Graves says . . . | March 22, 2012 / 8:28 am

   Oh damn – criterion, not criteria, and face meant, not chin.

8. tyco_bass says . . . | March 26, 2012 / 10:38 am

   What’s the copyright status of these? I presume you’re not just avoiding the issue.

9. Dan Colman says . . . | March 26, 2012 / 1:45 pm

   You might want to direct that question to Project Gutenberg which is the main source for these stories. But they generally do a good job of only publishing materials in the public domain.

   I also noted this line on Wikipedia: “As of July 17, 2010, eleven of Philip K. Dick’s early works in the public domain in the United States are available in ebook form from Project Gutenberg. See Dick, Philip K., 1928–1982 at Project Gutenberg.”

   Thanks,
   Dan

10. woo says . . . | June 6, 2012 / 7:28 pm

    my little hatchet.”

11. Patrick says . . . | March 4, 2013 / 7:47 am

    The Internet is global, but not so Apple’s iBook store, so I’m afraid many of us billions outside the US cannot take advantge of this generous offer.