Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on<i>any</i> planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick’s works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.<br><br>Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for <i>The Man in the High Castle</i>. In the last year of his life, the film<i>Blade Runner</i> was made from his novel <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</i><br><br>This collection includes some of Dick’s earliest short and medium-length fiction, including<i>We Can Remember It for You Wholesale </i>(the story that inspired the motion picture<i>Total Recall</i>), <i>Second Variety </i>(which inspired the motion picture <i>Screamers</i>), <i>Paycheck,</i> <i>The Minority Report</i>, and twenty more.