The clerk said, “For a toad I’d suggest also a perpetually renewing puddle, unless it’s a horned toad, in which case there’s a kit containing sand, multicolored pebbles, and bits of organic debris. And if you’re going to be putting it through its feed cycle regularly, I suggest you let our service department make a periodic tongue adjustment. In a toad that’s vital.”
“Fine,” Iran said. “I want it to work perfectly. My husband is devoted to it.” She gave her address and hung up.
And, feeling better, fixed herself at last a cup of black, hot coffee.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PHILIP K. DICK was born in Chicago in 1928. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, but dropped out rather than participate in mandatory ROTC training. Remaining in California, he began writing professionally in 1952, ultimately producing thirty-six novels and five short story collections. He won the 1962 Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle, and the 1974 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Dick died in 1982 of heart failure following a stroke.
BOOKS BY PHILIP K. DICK
AVAILABLE FROM VINTAGE BOOKS
Confessions of a Crap Artist
The Divine Invasion
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Galactic Pot-Healer
The Game-Players of Titan
The Man in the High Castle
Martian Time-Slip
A Maze of Death
Now Wait for Last Year
A Scanner Darkly
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Ubik
VALIS
The World Jones Made
“If the ’70s and ’80s…belonged to William Burroughs, the millennium belongs to Philip K. Dick.”
—Erik Davis
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Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1968 by Philip K. Dick
Introduction copyright © 1975 by Roger Zelazny
First published in Philip K Dick: Electric Shepherd by Norstrilia Press
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96–96117
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