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THE WEIRD & WONDERFUL WORLDS OF PHILIP K. DICK Robot psychiatrists activated by $20 coins A war veteran who keeps changing into a blob of organic jelly Business advice from the souls of the departed A machine that turns musical scores into small, furry animals A dog story that recalls Kafka's 'Investigations of a Dog' These are some of the treasures of imagination in this collection of Philip K. Dick's short fiction. They display all the uncanny inventiveness & sad, quirky humanism of his wonderful novels as well as being a testing ground for many of their later themes. Comprising: The Preserving Machine (1953); War Game (1959); Upon the Dull Earth (1954); Roog (1952); War Veteran (1955); Top Stand-By Job (1963); Beyond Lies the Wub (1952); We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966); Captive Market (1955); If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1953); Retreat Syndrome (1964); The Crawlers (1954); Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964); What the Dead Men Say (1964); Pay for the Printer (1956).