# The Father-Thing

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- Book: [The Father-Thing](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick/the-father-thing) ([The Father-Thing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick/the-father-thing.md))
- Authors: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7320-668-7
- Published: 2014-08-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as Foster, You're Dead a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and The Golden Man, a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.