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Indeholder "The Cookie Lady", "Beyond the Door ", "Second Variety", "Jon's World", "The Cosmic Poachers", "Progeny", "Some Kinds of Life", "Martians Come in Clouds", "The Commuter", "The World She Wanted", "A Surface Raid". "Project: Earth", "The Trouble with Bubbles", "Breakfast at Twilight", "A
"The Cookie Lady" handler om en lille dreng der læser op for en gammel kvinde og det liver hende vældigt op - men hans udbytte er mere tvivlsomt.
"Beyond the Door " handler om ???
"Second Variety" handler om næste krig, hvor amerikanerne udvikler robotfabrikker der laver krigsrobotter - de nyeste varianter ligner mennesker og er tæt på at udrydde alle mennesker der ikke har søgt tilflugt på månebasen - pigen Tasso hjælper soldaten Hendrick med at finde ud af hvordan variant nr II ser ud.
"Jon's World" handler om ???
"The Cosmic Poachers" handler om ???
"Progeny" handler om et barn, der vokser op uden mennesker kun passet af robotter, så det ser først sin far som 9-årig.
"Some Kinds of Life" handler om ???
"Martians Come in Clouds" handler om ???
"The Commuter" handler om Bob Paine der undrer sig over en pendler der vil forny togkortet til Macon Heights - en by der ikke blev bygget - han følger efter og opdager at Macon Heights er ved at tage fysisk form - og til sidst er Macon Heights loddet ind i virkeligheden som om den altid har været der.
"The World She Wanted" handler om ???
"A Surface Raid" handler om ???
"Project: Earth" handler om ???
"The Trouble with Bubbles" handler om ???
"Breakfast at Twilight" handler om en familie der bliver suget 7 år ind i fremtiden til en mareridtsagtig verden i total krig - de kommer tilbage men må indse at det er for sent at ændre på noget.
"A Present for Pat" handler om Eric Blake der har en gud med hjem fra Ganymedes til sin kone Patricia - men det går ikke så godt - Pat bliver forvandlet til granit og hans bedste ven til en tudse.
"The Hood Maker" handler om ???
"Of Withered Apples" handler om ???
"Human Is" handler om at Lester Herrick er så utålelig at hans kone Jill Herrick synes det er en forbedring da hans krop bliver overtaget af en alien på Rexor IV.
"Adjustment Team" handler om Ed Fletcher der pgra en fejl får indsigt i at verden bliver modificeret af en venligtsindet almægtighed af og til - da han uforvarende dumper ned i en deenergiseret sektor hvor alle folk ser ud til at være lavet af gråsort støv.
"The Impossible Planet" handler om en gammel gammel kone der vender tilbage til Jorden - eller i alt fald hvad rumkaptajnen kalder for Jorden.
"Impostor" handler om at en robot har taget Olrams plads eller har den?
"James P. Crow" handler om ???
"Planet for Transients" handler om 300 år efter atomkrigen hvor de sidste mennesker er ved at trække sig væk fra planeten for at overlade den til mutanterne der kan klare radioaktiviteten.
"Small Town" handler om ???
"Souvenir" handler om ???
"Survey Team" handler om ???
"Prominent Author" handler om Henry Ellis der er testbruger af den nye lyntransportør og opdager at der udenfor er nogle små skygger han kan kommunikere med.
Fremragende novellesamling
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Present for Pat", "The Hood Maker", "Of Withered Apples", "Human Is", "Adjustment Team". "The Impossible Planet", "Impostor", "James P. Crow", "Planet for Transients", "Small Town", "Souvenir", "Survey Team", "Prominent Author"."The Cookie Lady" handler om en lille dreng der læser op for en gammel kvinde og det liver hende vældigt op - men hans udbytte er mere tvivlsomt.
"Beyond the Door " handler om ???
"Second Variety" handler om næste krig, hvor amerikanerne udvikler robotfabrikker der laver krigsrobotter - de nyeste varianter ligner mennesker og er tæt på at udrydde alle mennesker der ikke har søgt tilflugt på månebasen - pigen Tasso hjælper soldaten Hendrick med at finde ud af hvordan variant nr II ser ud.
"Jon's World" handler om ???
"The Cosmic Poachers" handler om ???
"Progeny" handler om et barn, der vokser op uden mennesker kun passet af robotter, så det ser først sin far som 9-årig.
"Some Kinds of Life" handler om ???
"Martians Come in Clouds" handler om ???
"The Commuter" handler om Bob Paine der undrer sig over en pendler der vil forny togkortet til Macon Heights - en by der ikke blev bygget - han følger efter og opdager at Macon Heights er ved at tage fysisk form - og til sidst er Macon Heights loddet ind i virkeligheden som om den altid har været der.
"The World She Wanted" handler om ???
"A Surface Raid" handler om ???
"Project: Earth" handler om ???
"The Trouble with Bubbles" handler om ???
"Breakfast at Twilight" handler om en familie der bliver suget 7 år ind i fremtiden til en mareridtsagtig verden i total krig - de kommer tilbage men må indse at det er for sent at ændre på noget.
"A Present for Pat" handler om Eric Blake der har en gud med hjem fra Ganymedes til sin kone Patricia - men det går ikke så godt - Pat bliver forvandlet til granit og hans bedste ven til en tudse.
"The Hood Maker" handler om ???
"Of Withered Apples" handler om ???
"Human Is" handler om at Lester Herrick er så utålelig at hans kone Jill Herrick synes det er en forbedring da hans krop bliver overtaget af en alien på Rexor IV.
"Adjustment Team" handler om Ed Fletcher der pgra en fejl får indsigt i at verden bliver modificeret af en venligtsindet almægtighed af og til - da han uforvarende dumper ned i en deenergiseret sektor hvor alle folk ser ud til at være lavet af gråsort støv.
"The Impossible Planet" handler om en gammel gammel kone der vender tilbage til Jorden - eller i alt fald hvad rumkaptajnen kalder for Jorden.
"Impostor" handler om at en robot har taget Olrams plads eller har den?
"James P. Crow" handler om ???
"Planet for Transients" handler om 300 år efter atomkrigen hvor de sidste mennesker er ved at trække sig væk fra planeten for at overlade den til mutanterne der kan klare radioaktiviteten.
"Small Town" handler om ???
"Souvenir" handler om ???
"Survey Team" handler om ???
"Prominent Author" handler om Henry Ellis der er testbruger af den nye lyntransportør og opdager at der udenfor er nogle små skygger han kan kommunikere med.
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Collection
Publication
Citadel Press (2002), Paperback, 432 pages
Description
In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war between the United Nations and the Soviet Union, sophisticated robots--nicknamed "claws"--are created to destroy what remains of human life. Left to their own devices, however, the claws develop robots of their own. II-V, the second variety, remains unknown to the few humans left on Earth. Or does it? Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and essayist. His first short story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," was published shortly after his high school graduation. Some of his most famous short stories were adapted for film, including "The Minority Report," "Paycheck," "Second Variety" (adapted into the film Screamers) and "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (adapted into the film Total Recall). HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.… (more)
User reviews
LibraryThing member salimbol
As intelligent and prophetic as most of Dick's work, this second collection of his short stories nevertheless feels like his second best, lacking the number of top notch stories that appeared in the first collection, "Beyond Lies The Wub". More than a little repetitive, and the relentlessly
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masculine worlds they depict, with women simply there to either be decorative, hand-wringing or supportive, grow stale pretty quickly. Show Less
LibraryThing member jimocracy
This was, by far, my favorite story from this author. It was gripping from beginning to end and literally had me on the edge of my seat.
LibraryThing member DrLed
Synopsis: The Russians and the Americans are at war, but they have developed robots that do most of the fighting for them. However, these robots have evolved, on both sides, to become more and more human-like. They are now difficult to tell from real humans. The positive outcome is that they have
Review: This 1953 Space and Science Fiction story holds no hope that the wars will end, but puts forth the idea that humans will be destroyed by the machines they invent.
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also developed a hatred for each other and are preparing to fight each other.Review: This 1953 Space and Science Fiction story holds no hope that the wars will end, but puts forth the idea that humans will be destroyed by the machines they invent.
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LibraryThing member Stevil2001
The second volume of Philip K. Dick's complete short stories has been variously published under the titles Second Variety, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (not actually included in the 1999 Gollancz edition I have, and confusingly also the title of volume five in the Gollancz editions), and
I didn't find this quite as strong as the first volume. There are a lot of fantasy stories in this one, which are less to my taste, and a few too many stories where some spooky happens at the end and then the story stops, also a few too many stories about people exploring space. Which is usually my favorite subgenre of sf, but not one that plays to Dick's strengths. Some are undermined by seventy years of subsequent science fiction: "Second Variety" could be great, but if you've read later stuff, or even just another stuff by Dick, you'll see the twist coming. A similar complaint can be lodged at some of the time travel stuff here. Some of the stories have good concepts but don't totally convince on the worldbuilding, like one about a father in a world where robots do the childrearing... only he's somehow never heard of this dramatic change in social norms, or another about robots that are discriminating against humans, but ends up making everything too easy for a human to push against it.
That said, when Dick hits, he scores. There's some good satire of military imperialism in "Some Kind of Life," where every year some new excuse is thought of for good Terrans to go off to war—for the benefit of the Earth economy, of course. "The World She Wanted" is a weird story about someone convinced she can arrange the world the way she wants... and maybe she really can! "Breakfast at Twilight" is a neat glimpse of an ordinary suburban family suddenly plunged into a world at war. "Human Is" is a little bit predictable but effective all the same, about a man who may have been replaced by an alien. Dick loves this theme, of course; "Human Is" focuses on a wife uncertain about her husband but there's another where the replaced person themself is uncertain. On slightly similar lines, there's "Small Town" about a guy who obsessively builds a model of the town he lives in in his house's basement, taking out his dissatisfaction with his real life on the model...
My favorite here, though, was "The Commuter," where the main character begins slipping into another world, a world where a commuter town was built in the suburbs that never existed in his own. Like Dick's best stories, it captures the unease and uncertainty of modern life.
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Adjustment Team, and contains stories originally published from 1953 to '55 (the collections overlap in publication date a little bit because they are collected in sequence of composition).I didn't find this quite as strong as the first volume. There are a lot of fantasy stories in this one, which are less to my taste, and a few too many stories where some spooky happens at the end and then the story stops, also a few too many stories about people exploring space. Which is usually my favorite subgenre of sf, but not one that plays to Dick's strengths. Some are undermined by seventy years of subsequent science fiction: "Second Variety" could be great, but if you've read later stuff, or even just another stuff by Dick, you'll see the twist coming. A similar complaint can be lodged at some of the time travel stuff here. Some of the stories have good concepts but don't totally convince on the worldbuilding, like one about a father in a world where robots do the childrearing... only he's somehow never heard of this dramatic change in social norms, or another about robots that are discriminating against humans, but ends up making everything too easy for a human to push against it.
That said, when Dick hits, he scores. There's some good satire of military imperialism in "Some Kind of Life," where every year some new excuse is thought of for good Terrans to go off to war—for the benefit of the Earth economy, of course. "The World She Wanted" is a weird story about someone convinced she can arrange the world the way she wants... and maybe she really can! "Breakfast at Twilight" is a neat glimpse of an ordinary suburban family suddenly plunged into a world at war. "Human Is" is a little bit predictable but effective all the same, about a man who may have been replaced by an alien. Dick loves this theme, of course; "Human Is" focuses on a wife uncertain about her husband but there's another where the replaced person themself is uncertain. On slightly similar lines, there's "Small Town" about a guy who obsessively builds a model of the town he lives in in his house's basement, taking out his dissatisfaction with his real life on the model...
My favorite here, though, was "The Commuter," where the main character begins slipping into another world, a world where a commuter town was built in the suburbs that never existed in his own. Like Dick's best stories, it captures the unease and uncertainty of modern life.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1987
Physical description
432 p.; 19.6 cm
ISBN
0586207651 / 9780586207659
Local notes
Omslag: Chris Moore
Omslaget viser et kæmpeindustrianlæg og en rumfærgelignende flyvemaskine i nærheden
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, bind 2
Gutenberg, bind 32032
Gutenberg versionen er kun titelnovellen.
Omslaget viser et kæmpeindustrianlæg og en rumfærgelignende flyvemaskine i nærheden
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, bind 2
Gutenberg, bind 32032
Gutenberg versionen er kun titelnovellen.
Other editions
Anden udgave by Philip K. Dick (Paper Book)
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Pages
432
DDC/MDS
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