Philip K Dick discussion

Hello!

Back in the '90s I had what was, at the time, the only big collection of PKD shorts, aptly titled "The Collected Stories of PKD". This was a multiple volume publication.

At some point I gave it to someone as a present, thinking "I'll buy them again". Well, guess what...

So I wanted to ask if anyone remembers what was the publisher and how many volumes there were (5?). I really want to read them all again, preferably in the edition I had 15 years ago...

Thanks!

I'm guessing you mean these:












What a great collection of Dick's short stories.

I've got part five sitting on my shelf which I'm hoping to read shortly. Then I hope to get around to finding the previous volumes.

Ooh yes, these are the ones! So It's Grafton... thanks so much, time to hit AbeBooks (unless some kind soul in here has an extra set to sell?) !!

Thanks again :)
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these are the covers I remember: (first book of the series, only)

Hm, this doesn't ring a bell :)

Yeah there have been a few similar collections out there over the years. Subterranean Press has begun a new series, basically the same contents as The collected stories of PKD in 5 volumes. The first, The king of elves, has 2 additional stories included. Lots of griping about this edition as it isn't laid out as well as prior editions. Plus side is it's available to a generation that hasn't gotten their hands on the previous collections.

look at the comparison of editions section here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliogr...

It shows 3 previous collections of the complete short stories, with Subterranean starting a 4th.

Byron 'Giggsy' wrote: "look at the comparison of editions section here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliogr...

It shows 3 previous collections of the complete short stories, with Subterranean starti..."

Ahhh thanks... I have now almost completed my PKD collection in English, might as well go for these compilations as well... :)

I'm reading the second volume now: "Second Variety". They're good so far although some of them you can see the twist a mile off...

About 20 years ago I ran the 5 volume hard cover set put out by Underwood Miller at a science fiction book/ comic book shop. It had been bought out by someone who only knew comics. The price on it was $125, so I offered him $100 and got it. I think their collections were the basis for the Citadel Twilight paperbacks. They had an awful lot of vintage SF paperbacks and a scattering of hard cover books. I bought a lot of stuff there before the store disappeared.