{"product_id":"2940169788242","title":"Volume II: Adjustment Team","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as \u003ci\u003eThe Man in the High Castle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdjustment Team\u003c\/i\u003e is the second installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. This wide-ranging collection contains 26 stories and novellas from the extraordinarily productive years of 1952 and 1953, along with extensive story notes. Included here are \"The Cookie Lady,\" an account of a young boy whose relationship with a lonely widow results in a bizarre act of transformation, \u003ci\u003eSecond Variety\u003c\/i\u003e (filmed in 1995 as \u003ci\u003eScreamers\u003c\/i\u003e), a novella that powerfully evokes a post-apocalyptic society overrun by all-too-human looking robots known as \"Claws,\" and the title story, in which a small accident of timing leads real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to an unexpected confrontation with the malleable nature of a once familiar world. Like its predecessor, \u003ci\u003eThe King of the Elves\u003c\/i\u003e, this new volume offers both an astonishing variety of narrative pleasures and a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of a major American artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114753147120,"sku":"2940169788242","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169788242_p0.jpg?v=1763694405","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169788242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}