The Philip K. Dick Reader
Beyond Lies the Wub. The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.
The Second Variety. The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace—if it could!
The Defenders. No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war — perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves!
The Eyes Have It. A little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way....The Eyes Have It
The Hanging Stranger. Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong
he tried to correct it. Then one day he saw it hanging in the town square.
The Variable Man. He fixed things—clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in the future, where the calculators could not handle him. He was Earth's only hope—and its sure failure! Security Commissioner Reinhart rapidly climbed the front steps and entered the Council building. Council guards stepped quickly aside and he entered the familiar place of great whirring machines. His thin face rapt, eyes alight with emotion, Reinhart gazed intently up at the central SRB computer, studying its reading.
Tony and the Beetles. A ten-year-old boy grows up fast when history catches up with the human race.
