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FIRST PUBLICATION

•     Startling Stories, Jan 1954

HISTORY:

   PKD’s second offering of 1953, the manuscript for "A Present For Pat", reached the SMLA on Jan 17, 1953. The Agency found someone to give it to and it was published in Startling Stories in Jan 1954. After that it was published in the United Kingdom version of the magazine in March 1954. Then, almost twenty years later, Donald Wollheim selected it for his PKD collection, THE BOOK OF PHILIP K. DICK (1973). A few years later it appeared in THE TURNING WHEEL (1977) from Coronet publishers in the UK.

    "A Present For Pat" is a story where a minor deity from Ganymede is sold to a Terran and brought back to Earth, where it immediately starts causing trouble. A would-be funny story that sometimes is and at others is simply obvious.

    "A Present For Pat" rates ô ô

Other Magazine and Anthology appearances

1954		STARTLING STORIES #17 {UK}
1973		THE BOOK OF PHILIP K. DICK, DAW, pb, 44, ?,? (?)
1987		THE COLLECTED STORIES OF PKD

NOTES:

Ken Lopez: "A Present for Pat" in Startling Stories, Jan 1954 (1^st). FAIR. Signed by the author. Rippled from moisture and mildly discolored. Signature slightly blurred. $100

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