A complete collection of short prose. Volume 1

The first volume of the complete collection of short prose by the famous American writer, philosopher and visionary Philip Kindred Dick includes stories written in the period 1947 - 1952: from the earliest literary attempts, such as "Stability", "Rug", "Little Rebels", to widely known, in particular for the screen adaptations, of the stories "Time of Reckoning" and "The Second Model", which are considered not only a kind of hallmark of Philip Dick's writing style, but also formed whole plot directions in fantastic literature and cinema for many years to come.

Philip K. Dick /1928–1982/ is a cult American science fiction writer, philosopher and visionary, whose creative output has had an enormous influence, and still continues to influence, the entire world of fantastic and near-fantasy literature and cinema. One of the most important themes in the work of Philip Dick, to which the writer constantly returns, is to find out how real our reality is and how real we ourselves are. And also - whimsical parallel worlds and time loops, artificial creatures