The Father-Thing

Overview:

• Title: The Father-Thing
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Year: 1998
• ISBN-10: 0586207678
• Publisher: Voyager / HarperCollinsPublishers
• Price: £7.99
• Pages: 476
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: The Father-Thing
• Notes:
  Stated 1st printing of this 1998 edition, by number line. Title page:
  • "Voyager [over] Philip K. Dick [over] The Father-Thing [over] Volume 3 [over] The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick [over] Introduction by John Brunner"
  • "HarperCollinsPublishers"
  Copyright page:
  • "Voyager [over] An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers"
  • "This paperback edition 1998"
  • Number line: "1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2"
  • "Previously published in paperback by Grafton 1990"
  • "Reprinted once [over] and by HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy 1994"
  • "First published in Great Britain by [over] Victor Gollancz Ltd 1989"
  • "Copyright © The Estate of Philip K. Dick 1987"
  • "Introduction Copyright © 1987 by James Tiptree, Jr 1987"
  • "Entire contents Copyright © 1987 by The Estate of Philip K. Dick"
  • " Previously unpublished stories are [over] Copyright © 1987 by The Estate of Philip K. Dick."
  • "The excerpt by Philip K. Dick which appears at the beginning of [over] this volume is from a collection of interviews with the author [over] conducted by Paul Williams and published in Only Apparently Real, [over] Arbor House, 1986."
  Back cover:
  • "UK £7.99* recommended price" (no additional pricing)
  • "Cover illustration by Chris Moore"
  The Introduction, on unnumbered page 7, is signed "John Brunner [over] South Petherton [over] England [over] October 1986" A 1-paragraph interview, on unnumbered page 11, is captioned below: "— Philip K. Dick in an interview, 1974" The first numbered page is 8. Month/day from Amazon as of 2020-03-27. No entry on Locus1. Gloss cover.