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The Golden Man (collection)
''The Golden Man'' is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Berkley Books in 1980. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines '' If'', ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', ''Beyond Fantasy Fiction'', ''Worlds of Tomorrow'', ''Science Fiction Stories'', ''Orbit Science Fiction'', ''Future'', ''Amazing Stories'' and ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'' Contents * Foreword, by Mark Hurst * Introduction, by Philip K. Dick * " The Golden Man" (1954) * "Return Match" (1967) * " The King of the Elves" (1953) * " The Mold of Yancy" (1955) * "Not By Its Cover" (1968) * " The Little Black Box" (1964) * " The Unreconstructed M" (1957) * " The War with the Fnools" (1964) * " The Last of the Masters" (1954) * " Meddler" (1954) * "A Game of Unchance" (1964) * "Sales Pitch" (1954) * "Precious Artifact" (1964) * "Small Town" (1954) * "The Pre-persons" (1974) * Story Notes * Afterword Reception Thomas M. Disch reported that the collec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The War With The Fnools
"The War with the Fnools" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in '' Galaxy'' magazine in 1969. The Fnools are invaders who appear to be two-foot-tall human beings. They take on the guise of Volkswagen Volkswagen (),English: , . abbreviated as VW (), is a German motor vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front under the Nazi Party and revived into a global brand post-W ... mechanics, ethnic circus performers, and similar roles, unaware that they stand out for being unusually short. Then a Fnool discovers that if one of their kind partakes in an activity associated with "vice" (initially tobacco and alcohol), all Fnools gain two feet in height. When they do these the Fnools become indistinguishable from human beings, albeit temporarily, before one engages in sex and they all become inhumanly tall. Dick said of the story: References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip K
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great * Philip III of Macedon, half-brother of Alexander the Great * Philip IV of Macedon * Philip V of Macedon New Testament * Philip the Apostle * Philip the Evangelist Others * Philippus of Croton (c. 6th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Black Box
''The Little Black Box'' is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Gollancz in 1990 and reprints Volume V of ''The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick''. It had not previously been published as a stand-alone volume. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines ''Worlds of Tomorrow'', ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', '' Amazing Stories'', '' Fantasy and Science Fiction'', ''Famous Science Fiction'', ''Niekas'', ''Rolling Stone College Papers'', '' Interzone'', ''Playboy'', '' Omni'' and ''The Yuba City High Times''. Contents * Introduction, by Thomas M. Disch * " The Little Black Box" * "The War with the Fnools" * "A Game of Unchance" * " Precious Artifact" * "Retreat Syndrome" * "A Terran Odyssey" * "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday" * "Holy Quarrel" * " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" * " Not By Its Cover" * "Return Match" * " Faith of Our Fathers" * "The Story to End All Stories for Harlan Ellisonâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Short Story Collections
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F&SF
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy fiction magazine, fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence E. Spivak, Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas had approached Spivak in the mid-1940s about creating a fantasy companion to Spivak's existing mystery title, ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''. The first issue was titled ''The Magazine of Fantasy'', but the decision was quickly made to include science fiction as well as fantasy, and the title was changed correspondingly with the second issue. ''F&SF'' was quite different in presentation from the existing science fiction magazines of the day, most of which were in pulp magazine, pulp format: it had no interior illustrations, no letter column, and text in a single column format, which in the opinion of science fiction historian Mike Ashley (writer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas M
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pre-persons
"The Pre-persons" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'' magazine, October 1974. The story was an anti-abortion response to ''Roe v. Wade''. Dick imagines a future where the United States Congress has decided that abortion is legal until the soul enters the body. The specific instant is defined by the administration, at present the moment a person has the ability to perform simple algebraic calculations (around the age of 12). The main protester — a former Stanford mathematics major — demands to be taken to the abortion center, since he claims to have forgotten all his algebra. External linksPage at Internet Speculative Fiction Database 1974 short stories Abortion in fiction Short stories by Philip K. Dick Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction {{1970s-sf-story-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Town (short Story)
"Small Town" is a 1985 song written by John Mellencamp and released on his eighth album ''Scarecrow''. The song reached #6 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and #13 Adult Contemporary. Content Mellencamp wrote the song about his experiences growing up in a small town in Indiana, having been born in Seymour, Indiana, and living in Bloomington, Indiana, which, at the time of the release of the song, was larger. The music video has references to both towns. Backstory "I wrote that song in the laundry room of my old house," Mellencamp told '' American Songwriter'' magazine in 2004. "We had company, and I had to go write the song. And the people upstairs could hear me writing and they were all laughing when I came up. They said, 'You've got to be kidding.' What else can you say about it?" Mellencamp later told ''The Wall Street Journal'' that he had written the lyrics using an electronic typewriter that beeped whenever he misspelled a word, which had amused the people listening ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precious Artifact
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Sales Pitch (short Story)
"Sales Pitch" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in '' Future Science Fiction ''magazine, June 1954. The premise is the omnipresent, intrusive and even aggressive advertising and marketing. At the end of the story, the protagonist is driven mad by a robot who can forcefully market himself, and refuses to take no for an answer. The subject was of concern to Dick, and features in his early works such as ''The Man Who Japed''. Ending In 1978, Dick said of the story: For a 1989–1990 radio series, Sci Fi Radio produced an audio play version of this story which is now available for free download. The story was adapted by Tony Grisoni Tony Grisoni (born 28 October 1952) is a British screenwriter. He lives in London. His first feature film, ''Queen of Hearts'', directed by Jon Amiel, won the Grand Prix at the 1990 Festival du Film de Paris. Life and career He has co-written se ... for the episode "Crazy Diamond" of the 2017 T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Game Of Unchance
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey É‘. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meddler (short Story)
"Meddler" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in ''Future Science Fiction'', October 1954 with illustration by Virgil Finlay. Levack, Daniel (1981). PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, Underwood/Miller, pp. 108-109. Dick had submitted many short stories to magazines and made approximately fifteen sales before becoming a client of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency Scott Meredith, born Arthur Scott Feldman (1923, New York City, NY – 1 July 1992, Manhasset, NY) was a prominent American literary agent, and founder of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency. His clients included famous and successful writers .... This was his second SMLA submission, received by SMLA on July 24, 1952. His first SMLA submission was ''The Builder'', received by SMLA on July 23, 1952.Rickman, Gregg (1989), '' To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1963'', Long Beach, Ca.: Fragments West/The Valentine Press, p.388 Synopsis A governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
