The Father-thing Author:Philip K. Dick THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dicks first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as "Foster, Youre Dead" a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and "The Golden Man", a very different story abo... more »ut a super-evolved mutant human.« less