The Father-Thing

Overview:

• Title: The Father-Thing
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Year: 2003
• ISBN-10: 1857988817
• Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
• Price: £7.99
• Pages: xi+376
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: The Father-Thing
• Notes:
  Stated 3rd printing of the 2001 re-issue. Title page:
  • "Volume Three [over] The Collected Short Stories [over] of Philip K. Dick [over] Introduction by John Brunner"
  • Gollancz colophon as imprint.
  Copyright page:
  • "First published in Great Britain in 1999 by [over] Millennium [over] An imprint of Victor Gollancz"
  • "Reissued in 2001 by Gollancz"
  • "Third impression 2003"
  • "Copyright © 1987 The Estate of Philip K. Dick"
  • "Introduction © 1987 by Brunner Fact & Fiction Ltd."
  • "Entire contents Copyright © 1987 by The Estate of Philip K. Dick."
  • "Previously [over] unpublished stories are Copyright © 1987 by The Estate of Philip K. Dick."
  • "The excerpt which appears at the beginning of this volume is from a collection [over] of interviews with the author conducted by Paul Williams and published in [over] Only Apparently Real, Arbor House, 1986."
  Back cover:
  • Misspelling in the phrase "...Philip K. Dick's fisrt [sic] novel."
  • "UK £7.99 CAN $12.99"
  • No artist credit.
  The Introduction is signed on p.ix "John Brunner [over] South Petherton [over] England [over] October 1986" A 1-paragraph interview, on unnumbered p.xi is captioned below: "— Philip K. Dick in an interview, 1974" No entry on Locus1. Gloss cover.
  
  Note: There are at least 4 variations of this coverart, where the text has been moved against the artwork background and relatively to other text - sometimes only slightly.