Although he died when he was only 53 years old, Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982) published 44 novels and 121 short stories during his lifetime and solidified his position as arguably the most literary of science fiction writers. His novel Ubik appears on TIME magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels, and Dick is the only science fiction writer to get honored in the prestigious Library of America series, a kind of pantheon of American literature.
If you’re not intimately familiar with his novels, then you assuredly know major films based on Dick’s work – Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darklyand Minority Report. Today, we bring you another way to get acquainted with his writing. We're presenting a selection of Dick's stories available for free on the web. Below we have culled together 11 short stories from our collections, 600 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices and 550 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free. Some of the stories collected here have also found their way into the recently-published book, Selected Stories by Philip K. Dick, which features an introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
eTexts (find download instructions here)
- “Beyond the Door”
- ”Beyond Lies the Wub”
- “Mr. Spaceship”
- “Piper in the Woods”
- “Second Variety”
- “The Crystal Crypt”
- “The Defenders”
- “The Eyes Have It”
- “The Gun”
- "The Hanging Stranger"
- “The Skull”
- “The Variable Man”
- "Tony and the Beetles"
- "Beyond Lies the Wub" – Free MP3
- "Beyond the Door" - Free MP3
- "Second Variety" – Free MP3 Zip File - Stream Online
- "The Defenders" - Free MP3
- "The Gun" - YouTube
- "The Variable Man" – Free MP3 Zip File - Stream Online
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