We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - Philip K. Dick

This title belongs both to the story on which Total Recall was based and to the collection (Vol 5) in which it appears. All five books of Dick's collected short stories are excellent, the fifth has the added bonus of being extremely weird. I defy anyone to read the story of "Cadbury, the beaver who lacked." without being moved to laughter tears and confusion, often in the same paragraph. This collection also contains the short which later became "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", in this form containing the "Mood Organ" which people use to decide how they feel. And the title story, no Arnie, no special effects, ...  Read the complete review

'We can remember it for you wholesale' is the title of Volume five of Philp K Dick's collected short stories. As any self respecting SF or movie fan would know, Philip K Dick is the sf author who gave us' Blade Runner' ( his title for the story was 'Do androids dream of electric sheep'). Now if you're keen, you would also know that 'We can remember it for you wholesale' was the basis for Arnie's blockbusting action/scifi-fest 'Total Recall'. It is actually only one of the short stories ( really short-they expanded it relentlessly for the movie) in this brilliant collection. It covers the period 1963- 1981- a ...  Read the complete review