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Cover artist
  
Leo and Diane Dillon

Publication date
  
1969

Pages
  
317 pp

Author
  
Philip K. Dick

Country
  
United States of America

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
1969

Publisher
  
Ace Books

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Genres
  
Short story, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Short Stories
  
Paycheck, The Dark Haired Girl, The Philip K Dick Reader, The Best of Philip K Dick, The Eye of the Sibyl

Philip k dick the preserving machine


The Preserving Machine is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Ace Books in 1969 as part of their Ace Science Fiction Specials series. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, Beyond Fantasy Fiction, If, Amazing Stories, Planet Stories, Worlds of Tomorrow, Imagination and Satellite.

Contents

A hardcover issue of this book was released through the Book-of-the-Month Club (USA) in late 1969 and remained available through 1970. It is an octavo-sized book, bound in gray textured paper boards, stamped in green on the spine, in a dust-cover with "Book Club Edition" printed in lieu of the price on the bottom front flap. It remains the only hardcover edition of this title ever printed.

Contents

  • "The Preserving Machine"
  • "War Game"
  • "Upon the Dull Earth"
  • "Roog"
  • "War Veteran"
  • "Top Stand-By Job"
  • "Beyond Lies the Wub"
  • "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"
  • "Captive Market"
  • "If There Were No Benny Cemoli"
  • "Retreat Syndrome"
  • "The Crawlers"
  • "Oh, to be a Blobel!"
  • "What the Dead Men Say"
  • "Pay for the Printer"
  • References

    The Preserving Machine Wikipedia