So here is the first book - it's a collection of short stories - so we can comment after each story and people who come in late can still be part of the next story.
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale By Phillip K Dick - it's Volume 5 of "the collected stories" My edition was printed in 2000 and the publisher is Gollancz!
The story the book is named after is the story that inspired "Total Recall" - as you will see if you've seen the movie - only really a small part of the story is connect.
http://www.iblist.com/book4446.htm
Because there is a range of different Phillip K Dick short story collections - I'm going to list the each story in the book here. If you have a collection of PK Dick stories that has some of these than you can still take part but just not on each story! - we'll be reading them in order once we get enough people who have their hands on the book (3-5 should be enough although I'd like a lot more!)
The Little Black Box
The War With The Fnools
A Game Of Unchance
Precious Artifact
Retreat Syndrome
A Terran Odyssey
You Appoinment Will Be Yesterday
Holy Quarrel
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Not By Its Cover
Return Match
Faith Of Our Fathers
The Story To End All Stories For Harlan Ellison's Anthology Dangerous Visions{/i] (this is so short I'll write it out when we get to it so everybody can take part!)
The Electric Ant
Cadbury, The Beaver Who Lacked
A Little Something For Us Tempunauts
The Pre-Persons
The Eye Of The Sibyl
The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out Of Its Tree
The Exit Door Leads In
Chains Of Air, Web Of Aether
Strange Memories Of Death
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Rautavaara's Case
The Alien Mind
Phillip K Dick was a science fiction writer and philosopher from the cold world war. You can see many political statements and views in his work. He is not an amazing writer but he has an amazing sense of humour and imagination. His works have inspired many more modern sci fi writers and many movies - including the Matrix movies. He is also somebody who isn't afraid to be controversial and to piss people off. Two of my favourite stories of his in this collection - Faith Of Our Fathers and The Pre-Persons had very big reactions and he actually recieved a number of death threats relating to these stories. He was also a pacifist and won a number of awards including a HUGO award (the top sci fi award) for his book - The Man In The High Castle.
Once we finish this book someone else can choose the next one - but please don't ask or submit any ideas until I ask for them!
