The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a collection of 118 science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Underwood-Miller in 1987 as a five volume set. See Philip K. Dick bibliography for information about the mass market reprints.
Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Planet Stories, If, Galaxy Science Fiction, Imagination, Space Science Fiction, Fantastic Story Magazine, Amazing Stories, Future Science Fiction, Cosmos, Fantasy Fiction, Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, Fantastic Universe, Science Fiction Quarterly, Astounding, Science Fiction Adventures, Science Fiction Stories, Orbit, Satellite Science Fiction, Imaginative Tales, Fantastic, Worlds of Tomorrow, Escapade, Famous Science Fiction, Niekas, Rolling Stone College Papers, Interzone, Playboy, Omni and The Yuba City High Times.
Preface from a letter to John Betancourt
Foreword by Steven Owen Godersky
Introduction by Roger Zelazny
Stability
Roog
The Little Movement
Beyond Lies the Wub
The Gun
The Skull
The Defenders
Mr. Spaceship
Piper in the Woods
The Infinites
The Preserving Machine
Expendable
The Variable Man
The Indefatigable Frog
The Crystal Crypt
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
The Builder
Meddler
Paycheck
The Great C
Out in the Garden
The King of the Elves
Colony
Prize Ship
Nanny
Notes
Introduction by Norman Spinrad
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 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
Notes
Introduction by John Brunner
Fair Game
The Hanging Stranger
The Eyes Have It
The Golden Man
The Turning Wheel
The Last of the Masters
The Father-Thing
Strange Eden
Tony and the Beetles
Null-O
To Serve the Master
Exhibit Piece
The Crawlers
Sales Pitch
Shell Game
Upon the Dull Earth
Foster, You’re Dead
Pay for the Printer
War Veteran
The Chromium Fence
Misadjustment
A World of Talent
Psi-Man Heal My Child!
Notes
How Do You Know You're Reading Philip K. Dick?, by James Tiptree, Jr.
Autofac
Service Call
Captive Market
The Mold of Yancy
The Minority Report
Recall Mechanism
The Unreconstructed M
Explorers We
War Game
If There Were No Benny Cemoli
Novelty Act
Waterspider
What the Dead Men Say
Orpheus with Clay Feet
The Days of Perky Pat
Stand-by
What'll We Do with Ragland Park?
Oh, to Be a Blobel!
Notes
Introduction by Thomas M. Disch
The Little Black Box
The War with the Fnools
A Game of Unchance
Precious Artifact
Retreat Syndrome
A Terran Odyssey
Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday
Holy Quarrel
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Not By Its Cover
Return Match
Faith of Our Fathers
The Story to End All Stories for Harlan Ellison’s Anthology ''Dangerous Visions''
The Electric Ant
Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked
A Little Something for Us Tempunauts
The Pre-persons
The Eye of the Sibyl
The Day Mr. Computer Fell out of its Tree
The Exit Door Leads In
Chains of Air, Web of Aether
Strange Memories of Death
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Rautavaara's Case
The Alien Mind
Notes
The following stories are stories that were left out of this collection.
Goodbye, Vincent
Menace React (only a fragment remains and it was published after the collection)
The set was published in four states:
3 copies were quarterbound in calfskin with a handmade slipcase and the author's signature tipped in.
100 copies were bound in red buckram, slipcased, with the author's signature taken from his canceled checks, laid in.
405 copies were bound in tan and brown cloth, slipcased, but without signature. (400 of these are numbered from 101–500 and 5 are presentation copies.)
800 copies were bound with a yellow-orange binding and did not have a slipcase.
The volumes were not sold individually. All sets except the trade edition (800 copies) also included a chapbook, "Brief Synopsis for An Alternate World Novel: The Acts of Paul, an outline for a novel that was never written.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Primary Bibliographies:
PRECIOUS ARTIFACTS: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, United States of America and United Kingdom Editions, 1955 - 2012. Compiled by Henri Wintz and David Hyde. (Wide Books 2012). www.wide-books.com
PRECIOUS ARTIFACTS 2: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, The Short Stories, United States, United Kingdom and Oceania, 1952 - 2014. Compiled by Henri Wintz and David Hyde (Wide Books 2014). www.wide-books.com