# The Father-Thing

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- Authors: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-k-dick)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-18-5798-881-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1999-08-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.