{"product_id":"2940151461450","title":"PKD-13: Thirteen Short Stories (Illustrated \u0026 Annotated)","description":"13 classic stories by science fiction author Philip K. Dick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e130 footnotes\u003cbr\u003e16 original illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\"About the Author\" segment\u003cbr\u003eList of movies based on Philip K. Dick's works\u003cbr\u003eList of Philip K. Dick's awards and nominations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpertly formatted for easy reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEYOND LIES THE WUB\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GUN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing moved or stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs of life . . . and the trespassers had wrecked that for all time. The return journey to pick up the treasure would be a cinch . . . they smiled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SKULL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. But he would make no mistakes because he had the stranger's skull under his arm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DEFENDERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war -- perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMR. SPACESHIP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA human brain-controlled spacecraft would mean mechanical perfection. This was accomplished, and something unforeseen: a strange entity called --\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PIPER IN THE WOODS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperiled with a biological impossibility -- men becoming plants!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND VARIETY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe claws were bad enough in the first place -- nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace -- if it could!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EYES HAVE IT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE VARIABLE MAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe fixed things -- clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in the future, where the calculators could not handle him. He was Earth's only hope -- and its sure failure!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HANGING STRANGER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEd had always been a practical man, when he saw something wrong he tried to correct it. Then one day he saw IT hanging in the town square.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTONY AND THE BEETLES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA ten-year-old boy grows up fast when history catches up with the human race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEYOND THE DOOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarry Thomas bought a cuckoo clock for his wife -- without knowing the price he would have to pay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDid you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in the cuckoo clock has to lead--that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CRYSTAL CRYPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerror was rampant on the final Mars-Earth run. For black-clad Leiters were on the prowl ... and the grim red planet was not far behind.","brand":"Xanamania Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167300010224,"sku":"2940151461450","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151461450_p0.jpg?v=1764010830","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151461450","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}