Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal statistics of 20th century technology fiction. His many stories and novels, such as such classics as THE PERSON in the High Castle and Perform Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reveal a deeply personal world view, discovering the delicate, multifarious character of truth itself and evaluating those elements that produce us-or neglect to make us-fully human being. He did as much as one to demolish the artificial barrier between genre fiction and ‘literature,’ and about Quantity II: Adjustment Group the best of his work has earned a permanent place in American popular culture.Adjustment Team is the second installment of the uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Tales of Philip K. Dick. This wide-ranging collection contains 26 stories and novellas from your extraordinarily productive years of 1952 and 1953, along with considerable story notes. Included listed below are ‘The Cookie Lady,’ a merchant account of a young boy whose relationship with a lonesome widow results in a bizarre work of transformation, Second Variety (filmed in 1995 as Screamers), a novella that powerfully evokes a post-apocalyptic culture overrun by all-too-human searching robots referred to as ‘Claws,’ as well as the title story, when a small incident of timing qualified prospects real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to an urgent confrontation with the malleable character of a once familiar globe. Like its predecessor, The King of the Elves, this fresh volume gives both an amazing variety of narrative pleasures and a remarkable glimpse in to the evolution of a major American artist.