Philip K. Dick's short stories

Philip K. Dick’s many short stories including ‘Fair Game,’ The Father-Thing,’ ‘We Remember It For You, Wholesale,’ ‘The Chrominum Fence’ and ‘Paycheck’ are science fictions, each having unique themes. In his futuristic stories, he includes elements that people consider impossible but continuously debate about: aliens, humans existing in different planet, possibility of predicting the future. In ‘The Chrominum Fence,’ he explains that even in the future, people will fight politically over new problems. Among all the stories, ‘The Father- Thing’ was the most interesting one for me since it made me remember a movie that I watched in my childhood: Body Snatchers (1993). It wasn’t a story that talks about a simple alien invasion but something more significant and bizarre. The creatures in the story grow as mushrooms like fruiting body of fungi that resembles humans. When these are fully grown, they consume the original individuals and take their place in life. It was also interesting to find out that the movie ‘Total- Recall’ is film adaptation of the story ‘We Remember It For You, Wholesale.’ In the story of ‘Paycheck,’ the author seem to portray the idea that material’s value for a person can change depending on his/her situation. It was thrilling to find out how everything (trinkets that seem unimportant, disregarding the situation) connect at the end of the story as what save Jennings.