未来，世界上的人分成了两类：少数人生活在灿烂的阳光下，享受着悠闲从容的生活；绝大多数人则生活在地下的“蚁箱”，对他们来说，生活是无尽的劳作、挣扎，还有沉甸甸的恐惧——对核污染的恐惧，对死亡的恐惧。 终于，一个蚁民爬出蚁箱，来到地面的世界。他发现了真相：压制蚁民的一切恐惧，不过是地面贵人们的杜撰。 幻象崩溃，少数人压迫多数人的世界也必将瓦解！

十四个移民被送到了未经开发的德尔马克-欧星，却因设备故障与外界失去了联系。面对荒凉而陌生的环境，他们各怀心事、满腹猜疑，只能通过信号向神祈祷，但死亡随时可能降临……德尔马克-欧星上满是奇特的原生生物，还有早在移民到来之前就已存在的神秘大楼——它诱惑着所有人进入，却在各人眼中呈现出不同的模样……探索这颗星球的过程中，移民们接连遇害，是人们控制不住自己的癫狂，还是恶神在悄悄逼近？ 在这里，上帝要么不存在，要么是在蓄意毁灭它的造物……

核战之后，世界陷入无序和荒芜，只有少数正常人和一些受核辐射影响而变异的人和动物存活下来。 战争的“罪魁祸首”——患有极度偏执妄想症的"血钱博士"布鲁兹盖德隐姓埋名，企图躲避惩罚。但他没有料到，一个核战的受害者——畸形儿霍皮•哈灵顿的出现，将彻底改变他的命运，因为哈灵顿不仅在核战中获得了可怕的超能力，还有一颗更加扭曲变态的内心……

Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?This collection includes some of Dick's earliest short and medium-length fiction, including "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), "Second Variety" (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), "Paychecks", "The Minority Report", and 21 more.