''The Days of Perky Pat'' is a collection of
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
stories by American writer
Philip K. Dick. It was first published by
Gollancz in 1990 and reprints Volume IV of ''
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
''The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick'' is a collection of 118 science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Underwood-Miller in 1987 as a five volume set. See Philip K. Dick bibliography for informati ...
''. It had not previously been published as a stand-alone volume. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines ''
Galaxy Science Fiction
''Galaxy Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editi ...
'', ''Science Fiction Stories'', ''
If'', ''
Fantastic Universe
''Fantastic Universe'' was a U.S. science fiction magazine which began publishing in the 1950s. It ran for 69 issues, from June 1953 to March 1960, under two different publishers. It was part of the explosion of science fiction magazine publishin ...
'', ''
Fantasy and Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher ...
'', ''
Fantastic
The fantastic (french: le fantastique) is a subgenre of literary works characterized by the ambiguous presentation of seemingly supernatural forces.
Bulgarian-French structuralist literary critic Tzvetan Todorov originated the concept, charac ...
'', ''Worlds of Tomorrow'', ''Escapade'' and ''
Amazing Stories
''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances ...
''.
Contents
* How Do You Know You’re Reading Philip K. Dick?, by
James Tiptree, Jr.
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Autofac
"Autofac" is a 1955 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick that features one of the earliest treatments of self-replicating machines (and Dick's second, after his 1953 short story ''Second Variety''). It appeared originally ...
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Service Call"
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Captive Market
Captive markets are markets where the potential consumers face a severely limited number of competitive suppliers; their only choices are to purchase what is available or to make no purchase at all. The term therefore applies to any market where ...
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The Mold of Yancy"
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The Minority Report
"The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in ''Fantastic Universe''. In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs. Plugged into a great machine, these " p ...
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Recall Mechanism"
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The Unreconstructed M"
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Explorers We"
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War Game"
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If There Were No Benny Cemoli"
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Novelty Act"
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Waterspider"
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What the Dead Men Say"
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Orpheus with Clay Feet"
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The Days of Perky Pat
"The Days of Perky Pat" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1963 in ''Amazing'' magazine.
Plot
In this novel, survivors of a global thermonuclear war live in isolated enclaves in California, ...
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Stand-by"
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What'll We Do with Ragland Park?"
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Oh, to Be a Blobel!"
* Notes
References
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1990 short story collections
Short story collections by Philip K. Dick
Victor Gollancz Ltd books
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