About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (stories not included). Pages: 36. Chapters: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, The Minority Report, Second Variety, Faith of Our Fathers, The Last of the Masters, Adjustment Team, The Golden Man, A Little Something for Us Tempunauts, The Variable Man, Retreat Syndrome, The Turning Wheel, Upon the Dull Earth, Shell Game, Breakfast at Twilight, Roog, The King of the Elves, Paycheck, Meddler, The Unteleported Man, Not by Its Cover, The Preserving Machine, A World of Talent, The Builder, The Electric Ant, Explorers We, Orpheus with Clay Feet, The Pre-persons, Sales Pitch, The Days of Perky Pat, The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, Recall Mechanism, Mr. Spaceship, Beyond Lies the Wub, What the Dead Men Say, Foster, You're Dead!, The Indefatigable Frog, The War with the Fnools, Planet for Transients, Nanny, The Mold of Yancy, The Infinites, The Crystal Crypt, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, Pay for the Printer, The Trouble with Bubbles, The Defenders, The Exit Door Leads In, Prize Ship, The Great C, Null-O, The Eye of the Sibyl, Piper in the Woods, The Gun, The Father-thing, Impostor, The Commuter, The Chromium Fence, Autofac, Rautavaara's Case, The Skull, If There Were No Benny Cemoli, The Little Movement, War Veteran, Out in the Garden, Expendable, Psi-man Heal My Child!, Colony, Fair Game, Oh, to Be a Blobel!, The Cookie Lady, Exhibit Piece, What'll We Do with Ragland Park?, Strange Eden, Waterspider, Human Is, Project Plowshare, The Crawlers, Service Call, Novelty Act. Excerpt: "The Last of the Masters" (aka "Protection Agency") is a science fiction novelette by Philip K. Dick. The original manuscript of the story was received by the Scott Meredith Literary Agency on July 15, 1953, and the story was published by the Hanro Corporation in the final issue of Orbit Science Fiction in 1954. It has since been reprinted in severa...