Though perhaps most well-known being a novelist, Philip K. Dick had written more than one hundred short tales during the period of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer functions. Philip K. Dick’s Electric powered Dreams collects ten of the greatest. In “Autofac,” Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. “Display Piece” and “The Commuter” feature Dick exploring one of his favorite styles: the moving nature of fact and whether it’s even feasible to understand the world since it truly is present. And “The Dangling Stranger” offers a exciting, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dick composed it on the height from the Cold War.

Strange, funny, and effective, the stories in this collection highlight a professional at the job, encapsulating his boundless creativity and deep knowledge of the individual condition.