Vintage PKD (21 page)
Science Fiction/0-679-75296-X
The
World Jones
Made
Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly, and quite possibly mad, but in a very short time he will rise from telling fortunes at a mutant carnival to convulsing an entire planet. For although Jones has the power to see the future—a power that makes his life a torment—his real gift lies elsewhere: in his ability to make people dream again in a world where dreaming has been made illegal.
Science Fiction/0-679-74219-0
The
Zap
Gun
Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions—Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Their job is to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world.
Science Fiction/0-375-71936-9
VINTAGE READERS
Authors available in this series
Martin Amis
Nicholson Baker
James Baldwin
A. S. Byatt
Willa Cather
John Cheever
Sandra Cisneros
Philip K. Dick
Joan Didion
Richard Ford
Dashiell Hammett
Langston Hughes
Barry Lopez
Alice Munro
Haruki Murakami
Vladimir Nabokov
V.S. Naipaul
Michael Ondaatje
Oliver Sacks
Representing a wide spectrum of some of our most significant
modern authors, the Vintage Readers offer an attractive, accessible
selection of writing that matters.
Philip K. Dick
VINTAGE PKD
Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952 he began writing professionally, going on to write thirty-six novels, including
Martian Time-Slip
,
A Scanner Darkly
, and
Ubik
, and five short-story collections. He won the 1963 Hugo Award for best novel for
The Man in the High Castle
and the 1975 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died in 1982.
NOVELS BY PHILIP K. DICK
Clans of the Alphane Moon
Confessions of a Crap Artist
The Cosmic Puppets
Counter-Clock World
The Crack in Space
Deus Irae
(with Roger Zelazny)
The Divine Invasion
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dr. Bloodmoney
Dr. Futurity
Eye in the Sky
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Galactic Pot-Healer
The Game-Players of Titan
Lies, Inc.
The Man in the High Castle
The Man Who Japed
Martian Time-Slip
A Maze of Death
Now Wait for Last Year
Our Friends from Frolix 8
The Penultimate Truth
Radio Free Albemuth
A Scanner Darkly
The Simulacra
Solar Lottery
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Time Out of Joint
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Ubik
VALIS
Vulcan’s Hammer
We Can Build You
The World Jones Made
The Zap Gun
A VINTAGE ORIGINAL, JUNE 2006
Copyright © 2006 by Laura Leslie, Isolde Hackett, and Christopher Dick
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York,
and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The pieces in this collection were originally published as follows:
Selection from The Man in the High Castle, copyright © 1962 by Philip K. Dick
Selection from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, copyright © 1964 by Philip K. Dick
Selection from Ubik, copyright © 1969 by Philip K. Dick
Selection from A Scanner Darkly, copyright © 1977 by Philip K. Dick
Selection from VALIS, copyright © 1981 by Philip K. Dick
“The Lucky Dog Pet Store,” copyright © 1979 by Philip K. Dick (Foundation, a
British journal)
“The Days of Perky Pat,” “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts,” and “I Hope I Shall
Arrive Soon” from Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick, copyright © 2002 by the Estate
of Philip K. Dick
“The Zebra Papers” from Volume 5 of The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (1977–1979),
copyright © 1992 by the Estate of Philip K. Dick
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dick, Philip K.
[Selections. 2006]
Vintage PKD / Philip K. Dick.
p. cm.
“A Vintage original”––T.p. verso.
I. Title: Vintage PKD. II. Title.
PS3554.I3A6 2006
813’.54––dc22
2005058486
eISBN: 978-0-307-43004-5
v3.0
