This volume covers a wide span from late 1954 through to 1963 the years during which Dick began writing novels prolifically & his short story output lessened The title story of this collection has been made into the Steven Spielberg-directed movie of the same name while " The Days of Perky Pat" inspired one of Dick's greatest works the novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; The Penultimate Truth grew from " The Mold of Yancy" Philip K Dick is shown at his incomparable prime in this fourth volume of the definitive collection of short fiction