Eggp’s Reviews > The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 2: Second Variety > Status Update

25. Souvenir, 3 stars. Long lost colony is rediscovered, has zero desire to join up with a powerful government.
26. Survey Team, 3 stars. Team checks out Mars as a potential escape plan from apocalyptic earth, find it already picked clean.
27. Prominent Author, 3 stars. Office worker communicates with tiny people he meets on his daily commute.

22. James P. Crow, 3 stars. Humans are servants to robots, the superior race.
23. Planet For Transients, 3 stars. Unmutated human from underground goes looking on the surface for others like him.
24. Small Town, 3 stars. Miserable cuckold vents his frustration on his model train village.

19. Adjustment Team, 3 stars. A small error in timing makes a man late for work, and a witness to what goes on backstage.
20. The Impossible Planet, 3 stars. Ancient dying woman wants to see the mythical planet Earth before she kicks the bucket.
21. Imposter, 3 stars. Man desperately tries to prove his identity after being escaping arrest for an espionage accusation.

16. The Hood Maker, 3 stars. Telepathic conspiracy to take over the government doesn't consider the long term.
17. Of Withered Apples, 3 stars. Apple tree flirts aggressively with a young wife, but she resists.
18. Human Is, 3 stars. Cruel snippy husband returns from a business trip with a whole new attitude.

13. The Trouble With Bubbles, 3 stars. People take out their frustrations on tiny toy planets they painstakingly manipulate into evolving.
14. Breakfast At Twilight, 2 stars. Annoying suburban family gets sucked into a recent-future war zone.
15. A Present For Pat, 3 stars. Husband gifts wife a tiny temperamental God, she is less than appreciative.

10. The World She Wanted, 3 stars. Pushy woman decides she's the only real person in the world, but Larry won't bend to her will.
11. A Surface Raid, 3 stars. Underground mutants go to the surface to abduct people, young one is flustered by a pretty girl.
12. Project: Earth, 3 stars. Observer has his tiny people stolen by a child, ruining his research.

04. Jon's World, 3 stars. Post-apocalyptic society invents a time machine to steal pre-war technology, guy is terrible father.
05. The Cosmic Poachers, 3 stars. Terrans shoot first when alien race has something shiny they like the look of.
06. Progeny, 3 stars. Robots raise children to their full potential, human beings stink.

01. The Cookie Lady, 3 stars. Listless young boy's visits make an old woman feel rejuvenated.
02. Beyond The Door, 4 stars. Nasty man begrudgingly buys girlfriend a present, is unpleasant to everyone.
03. Second Variety, 4 stars. [2017]