Status
Available
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Publication
Voyager (1990), Paperback
Description
THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as Foster, You're Dead a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and The Golden Man, a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.
User reviews
LibraryThing member symcbean
All 3 variety anthologies seem to favour Dick's earlier work - perhaps drawing on a deeper pool of short stories - but are none the worse for it.
PD is insightful, funny and simultaeneously deeply disturbing. References to the Cold War resonate throughout his work. These may be lost on the younger
PD is insightful, funny and simultaeneously deeply disturbing. References to the Cold War resonate throughout his work. These may be lost on the younger
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reader - but this will have a special place on my bookshelf for some time. Show Less
LibraryThing member expatscot
Nice package of inventive storytelling. Nothing that really stood out, but I guess most of his central themes will have bene endlessly picked over by now so will have lost their freshness / shock value.
Language
Original publication date
1987
Physical description
400 p.; 7.64 inches
ISBN
1857988817 / 9781857988819