"Foster, You're Dead"
Title | "Foster, You're Dead" |
Year for Search | 1954 |
Authors | Dick, Philip K[indred](1928-82) |
Secondary Authors | Pohl, Frederik [George] [Jr.](1919-2013) |
Secondary Title | Star Science Fiction Stories |
Volume / Edition | No. 3 |
Pagination | 64-85 |
Date Published | 1954 |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Dystopia in which people are chosen for access to fallout shelters based on their ability to contribute to society. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: The Father-Thing (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 221-37; in The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: Upon the Dull Earth [1953-1954] (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 265-84; in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (London: Gollancz, 2017). U. S. ed. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 138-62 with an “Introduction” by Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell (135-37). |
Info Notes | The book Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams became a ten-episode TV anthology Amazon/UK Channel 4/SONY Pictures Television in 2018 with the story as “Safe & Sound.” |
Holding Institutions | PSt, Public |
Author Note | (1928-82) |
Full Text | 1954 Dick, Philip K[indred] (1928-82). “Foster, You’re Dead.” Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1954), 64-85. Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: The Father-Thing (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 221-37; in The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: Upon the Dull Earth [1953-1954] (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 265-84; in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (London: Gollancz, 2017). U. S. ed. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 138-62 with an “Introduction” by Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell (135-37). The book became a ten-episode TV anthology Amazon/UK Channel 4/SONY Pictures Television in 2018 with the story as “Safe & Sound.” PSt, Public Dystopia in which people are chosen for access to fallout shelters based on their ability to contribute to society. |