Edited by H. L. Gold; Galaxy Science Fiction hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didnt fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped Galaxy Magazine carve its name on the Mount Rushmore of science fiction.

Dream World by R. A. Lafferty,
The Imitation of Earth by James Stamers,
Amateur in Chancery by George O. Smith,
The Lamps of the Angels by Richard Sabia,...

Second Variety is a story by Philip K. Dick first published in Space Science Fiction magazine. A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. Even so, the war continues among scattered remains of humanity. The Western forces have recently developed claws, autonomous self-replicating robots, to fight on their side. It is one of Dick's many stories in which nuclear war has rendered the Earth's surface uninhabitable.

He fixed things-clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in the future, where the calculators could not handle him. He was Earth's only hope-and its sure failure

The Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 features the Science Fiction legend and prolific pulp writer Philip K. Dick. Included are eleven of his short stories spanning 1952-54. Beyond Lies the Wub, The Gun, The Skull, Mr. Spaceship, Piper in the Woods, The Defenders, The Eyes Have It, The Hanging Stranger, Tony and the Beetles, Beyond the door, The Crystal Crypt.

"A human brain-controlled spacecraft would mean mechanical perfection. This was accomplished, and something unforeseen: a strange entity called Mr. Spaceship." Originally published in 1953, this adventurous short story by the legendary Philip K. Dick ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Scanner Darkly") sees a new lease of life as the first ECHO EDITION, a series of revisited and redesigned works published by Brown Griffin in collaboration with Los Angeles's Vacation Days.

Many would call Philip K. Dick the Shakespeare of science fiction and in this story, he gives us a great understanding of why; well worth taking the time to read, Second Variety is a masterpiece of contemporary science fiction.

Noe Torres, author of "Aliens in the Forest" and "The Real Cowboys & Aliens," has selected eight of his favorite science fiction stories from the 1950s for this outstanding collection. Included are tales that capture the essence of the 1950s, including masterpieces by Clifford D. Simak, Frederik Pohl, H. Beam Piper, Philip K. Dick, Murray Leinster, and Fritz Lieber. The impact and reach of these stories has been extensive, as all of them were adapted into radio dramas for the outstanding 1950s series "X Minus One," which is still treasured by many today. The included stories also influenced...

Arguably the father of all modern science fiction, each one of Philip K. Dick's stories is worth reading and this short story is a great starting place.