The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Two: Adjustment Team

Adjustment Team is the second installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. This wide-ranging collection contains 26 stories and novellas from the extraordinarily productive years of 1952 and 1953, along with extensive story notes. Included here are “The Cookie Lady,” an account of a young boy whose relationship with a lonely widow results in a bizarre act of transformation, “Second Variety” (filmed in 1995 as Screamers), a novella that powerfully evokes a post-apocalyptic society overrun by all-too-human looking robots known as “Claws,” and the title story, in which a small accident of timing leads real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to an unexpected confrontation with the malleable nature of a once familiar world. Like its predecessor, The King of the Elves, this new volume offers both an astonishing variety of narrative pleasures and a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of a major American artist.Volume 2/5. Includes stories from 1953-1955: - 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 - Imposter - James P. Crow - Planet for Transients - Small Town - Souvenir - Survey Team - Prominent Author.Other editions of this volume are titled: - We Can Remember it for You Wholesale [by Citadel], - We Can Remember it for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories [by Citadel], - Second Variety. Editions published by Citadel include "We can remember..." instead of "Second Variety" into Volume 2. > Volumes published by Subterranean: - Volume 1 ISBN13 9781596063402 - Volume 2 ISBN13 9781596063952 - Volume 3 ISBN13 9781596065123 - Volume 4 ISBN13 9781596065987 - Volume 5 ISBN13 9781596066489