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Volume I: The King of the Elves
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal world view, exploring the fragile, multifarious nature of reality itself and examining those elements that make us - or fail to make us - fully human. He did as much as anyone to demolish the artificial barrier between genre fiction and "literature," and the best of his work has earned a permanent place in American popular culture.
The King of the Elves is the opening installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, expanded from the previous Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one previously unpublished, and one uncollected. This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas including Dick's first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," together with such landmark tales as "The Preserving Machine," in which an attempt to preserve our fragile cultural heritage takes an unexpected turn, The Variable Man, a brilliantly imagined novella encompassing war, time travel, and the varied uses of technology, and the title story, in which Shadrach Jones, owner of a dilapidated gas station in Colorado, stumbles into an ongoing war between trolls and elves, and encounters a fantastic - and utterly unexpected - destiny. Like the best of Dick's novels, these stories offer a wide variety of narrative and intellectual pleasures, and provide an ideal introduction to one of the singular imaginations of the modern era.
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- Renee Tang
- 04-18-17
Fantastic stories!
I loved Volume 1 and look forward to completing the rest of the series. Mr. Dick was a visionary. For the most part, I liked the narrator but sometimes the men's "voices" sounded a bit stilted.
I wished Audible listed the title for each chapter in the Table of Contents. I created my own, as listed below for Volume 1.
Volume 1: The King of Elves
1. Stability (1987)
2. Roog (1953)
3. The Little Movement (1952)
4. Beyond Lies the Wub (1952)
5. The Gun (1952)
6. The Skull (1952)
7. The Defenders (1953)
8. Mr. Spaceship (1953)
9. Piper in the Woods (1953)
10. The Infinites (1953)
11. The Preserving Machine [Doc Labyrinth series] (1953), part 1
12. The Preserving Machine [Doc Labyrinth series] (1953), part 2
13. Expendable (1953)
14. The Variable Man (1953), part 1
15. The Variable Man (1953), part 2
16. The Indefatigable Frog (1953)
17. The Crystal Crypt (1954)
18. The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford [Doc Labyrinth series] (1954)
19. The Builder (1954)
20. Meddler (1954)
21. Paycheck (1953)
22. The Great C (1953)
23. Out in the Garden (1953)
24. The King of the Elves (1953)
25. Colony (1953)
26. Prize Ship (1954)
27. Nanny (1955)
28. Notes, part 1
29. Notes, part 2
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- cjh
- 04-20-18
Ruined by narration and editing
The narrator uses the same gruff male voice for many of the same male characters within a single story, you can hear this within the first story, so it's very hard to tell who is actually talking.
The stories run together without any gaps, so you're listening and suddenly the story shifts and it takes you a while to realise.
The chapters don't correspond to the stories, so it's impossible to skip to a certain story to share it, or to go back. For example the second story starts 1:26 before the end of chapter 1 - about 30 minutes in.
I'm a huge PKD fan, but this format is just terrible.
I wasn't able to get past the second story.
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- Quadraphalange
- 07-20-18
Horrible Natration
Great stories that are completely ruined by the narrator’s less-than-sincere attempts to perform the characters seriously. Honestly sounds like she’s mocking pretty much every character she portrays. I’ll try to finish this later, I can’t even with this chick right now.
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- Muuuu
- 04-29-18
chapters not seperated
There is not a pause or separation between chapters, which makes listening challenging.
I am adding this sentence because audible requires reviews to have at least 15 words, which is just stupid.
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- David Mathers
- 03-15-18
good stories, wrong narrator
the narrator does a fine job. however they choose a female narrator and 90% of the characters are male.
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- John
- 12-19-17
Great collection-but...
I'll just get it out in the open. The stories run together as if they do not end. The narration is very good. The narrator seamlessly voices character of difference sex, age, and species (because it is PKD) with skill and feeling. But the stories are ran together with no discernable break. The stories themselves are gold. It could have used a little more careful production.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-15-17
classic
classic short science fiction, has a lot of reread-ability! the performance was pretty good, kate rudd's voice sometimes became a bit lifeless though.
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- mad poet
- 04-16-18
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Where does Volume I: The King of the Elves rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I tried three times in the last year to listen to these stories. I have heard of books being unreadable ... this book is un-hearable.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
All of the Narrator's "male" dialog sounds like Billy Goat Gruif. I was unable to tell which character was speaking during conversions. Tone of dialog did not match context and/or words used so reader has to translate dialog to discover the meaning implied by author. Consequently it would have been much easier to read the book than to listen to it.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Author's e.emotional message hidden by narration that did not seem to match intended content.
Any additional comments?
I really like other recorded works by Philip k. Dick.
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- Cory Brown
- 01-09-21
Fun, Strange and Humorous!
Great stories, especially if you enjoy tales that are a bit unusual. Several of the stories featured have some pretty humorous themes, they had me rolling with laughter! Others are creepy and atmospheric, so there's a good variety here.
My only complaint is, the actor reading the stories sometimes has a very strange cadence. It took me a while to get used to it, but the book was still greatly enjoyable.
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- Robert Hancock
- 02-16-18
Great stores spooked by annoying funny voices
The stores are fascinating but are ruined by the reader who uses childish funny voices for the characters.
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- Timothy S.
- 07-08-20
Mixed bag of short stories
I struggled to listen to many of the stories in this collection as the topics were often bizarre and self inconsistent. Space explorers lacking basic common sense and a military commander worried about undressing to save her life???? The narrator's sometimes robotic voice did not help in these cases.
However, there are some stand out gems imo and my favourite was "The Variable Man" which gives some clues about the greatness Philip K Dick achieves in his later stories.
If you are new to Philip K Dick, I suggest listening to one of his later works rather than this collection as an introduction to his writing. If you have read a few of PKD's stories already, I'd recommend this collection as a good representation of his early work.
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- Mr. S. Rafferty
- 07-10-19
No gaps
The stories are great and on the whole, the performance was good. the bit I struggled with was the lack of gap between individual stories. At the end of one, the title of the next was like the next sentence. A few times I missed the break altogether and just thought the story was taking an odd turn! Needs full concentration I guess.
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- Dominic Gill
- 06-06-16
terrible amateurish reading
completely ruins what could have been an excellent production.
who makes these crucial decisions? far too often lack of intelligent quality control on Audible.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-27-21
Wonderful narration great stories legendary author
Wonderful narration great stories legendary author
The only thing I didn't like was when it was over 😉
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-17-17
Early stories show the development of PKD
There are many interesting stories in the collection. Even when they are less than perfectly executed they already have the beginnings of the authors approach
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- Peter
- 05-12-17
Some Up Some Down..
A fine grouping of very listenable short stories with thought provoking ideas..
Some require to be heard a second time...
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- ozgribbo
- 07-25-18
Some gems
I have read Phillip K Dick since the 70s and have really enjoyed his novels. This collection of shorter stories has some great stuff, but unfortunately they are in the minority. Some are really showing their age and although Dick has a good imagination his grasp of science at times is week, The narrator copes well with the general story line but characterisation is often weak. On two different audio players I used the stories had very little gaps between them and this can be annoying. Still, if you like this author, it's probably worth investing in.