Although he died when he was only 53 years old, Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982) published 44 novels and 121 short stories during his lifetime and solidified his position as the most literary of science fiction writers. His novel Ubik appears on TIME magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels, and Dick is the only science fiction writer to get honored in the prestigious Library of America series, a kind of pantheon of American literature.
If you’re not intimately familiar with his novels, then you assuredly know major films based on Dick’s work – Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and Minority Report. Today, we bring you another way to get acquainted with his writing. We’re presenting a selection of Dick’s stories available for free on the web. Below we have culled together 14 short stories from our collection of Free eBooks and Free Audio Books. They’re all, it appears, in the public domain.
eTexts (find download instructions here)
- “Beyond the Door”
- “Beyond Lies the Wub”
- “Mr. Spaceship”
- “Piper in the Woods”
- “Second Variety”
- “The Crystal Crypt”
- “The Defenders”
- “The Eyes Have It”
- “The Gun”
- “The Hanging Stranger”
- “The Skull”
- “The Variable Man”
- “Tony and the Beetles”
- “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”
Audio
- “Beyond Lies the Wub” – Free MP3
- “Beyond the Door” – Free MP3
- “Second Variety” – Free MP3 Zip File – Stream Online
- “The Defenders” - Free MP3
- “The Hanging Stranger” – Free MP3
- “The Variable Man” – Free MP3 Zip File – Stream Online
- “Tony and the Beetles” – MP3 Part 1 – MP3 Part II
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You can also find an audio dramatization of PKD’s “Beyond Lies the Wub” at radioprojectx.com. Enjoy!
You can add “Adjustment Team” to the list of Philip K. Dick stories in the public domain in the United States that are available on the web.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adjustment_Team