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Original Title:	The Golden Man
ISBN:	0417062001 (ISBN13: 9780417062006)
Edition Language:	English URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Man_%28collection%29

The Golden Man Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 337 pages

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Title	:	The Golden Man
Author	:	Philip K. Dick
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 337 pages
Published	:	1986 by Methuen (first published February 1980)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Short Stories

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Here's a chance to read not just one but fifteen stories created by one of the most popular science fiction writers of today. This anthology is full of both new and classic ideas, brimming over with wit and the author's natural sense of fun.
lf you want to learn about The Golden Man - totally irresistible to women, of the secret life of wub fur, of chameleon-like aliens called fnools, and a great deal more, read on...

Contents:
- Foreword by Mark Hurst
- Introduction by Philip K. Dick
- The Golden Man (1954)
- Return Match (1967)
- The King of the Elves (1953)
- The Mold of Yancy (1955)
- Not By Its Cover (1968)
- The Little Black Box (1964)
- The Unreconstructed M (1957)
- The War with the Fnools (1964)
- The Last of the Masters (1954)
- Meddler (1954)
- A Game of Unchance (1964)
- Sales Pitch (1954)
- Precious Artifact (1964)
- Small Town (1954)
- The Pre-Persons (1974)
- Story Notes by Philip K. Dick
- Afterword by Philip K. Dick

Front cover illustration by Richard Sparks

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From "based on movies" I always saw Dick as visionary and clever writer, but never actually read something from him. This collection of early short stories, although amazingly constructed, is so idealogically distant for me, I just cannot recommend it. It was unpleasant eye-opener, which makes Philip K. Dick look like babbling TV preacher.

I only read The Golden Man. It was interesting. Not at all like the movie that was based on it: Next.

Very intersted idea. Not more.

Τα περισσότερα διηγήματα αυτής της συλλογής είχαν κάτι ενδιαφέρον. Τρία, τουλάχιστον, θα τα θυμάμαι για καιρό. Τα περισσότερα, παρόλα αυτά, δεν τα απόλαυσα πραγματικά. Είχαν αυτό το στυλ γραφής που με έχει κρατήσει μέχρι τώρα μακριά από την Ε.Φ. Ψυχρό, στεγνό, κάπως βαρετό μέχρι την τελική αποκάλυψη (όχι σαν το Ηλεκτρικό Πρόβατο, που το ευχαριστιέσαι από την πρώτη ως την τελευταία γραμμή).

4/5 ale udaję, że ostatnie opowiadanie nie miało miejsca

So basically PKD created the X-Men like ten years before X-Men first appeared? Hes still proving that he was light years ahead and were all just catching up to him (or at least trying to).

Mark Hurst did an excellent job of editing this collection--these 15 stories work well together in terms of varying in length, style, and subject matter. They cover familiar PKD territory--the dangers of time-travel, the possibility of our planet being invaded by idiots ("fnools"), religion as politics, objects and toys being other than what they seem, and the danger of us becoming Eisenhower clones. The final story is perhaps the only sci-fi story ("The Pre-Persons") I've ever read from a