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Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th hundred years science fiction. His many reviews and novels, such as such classics as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Imagine Electric Sheep?, mirror a deeply personal world view, exploring the delicate, multifarious mother nature of reality itself and examining those elements that make us - or neglect to make us - completely human. He did approximately anyone to demolish the man-made barrier between genre fiction and "literature," and the best of his work has received a permanent put in place North american popular culture. The King of the Elves is the beginning installment of any uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Experiences of Philip K. Dick, expanded from the prior Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one recently unpublished, and one uncollected. This ample collection has 22 reviews and novellas including Dick's first publicized story, "Beyond Lays the Wub," as well as such landmark tales as "The Preserving Machine," in which an effort to preserve our fragile ethnic heritage takes an urgent turn, The Varying Man, a brilliantly imagined novella encompassing war, time travel, and the assorted uses of technology, and the title story, in which Shadrach Jones, owner of any dilapidated gas train station in Colorado, stumbles into an ongoing war between trolls and elves, and encounters an excellent - and absolutely unexpected - future. Just like the best of Dick's books, these stories provide a wide variety of narrative and intellectual pleasures, and offer an ideal launch to one of the singular imaginations of the present day era.
