“The World She Wanted”
1953-05-00
short story
By Philip K. Dick


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Synopsis

A woman walks into a man’s life and tells him he is living in her world, that everyone has their world, the way they really want it to be and this one is hers.

History

First publication: Science Fiction Quarterly, May 1953

Review

Back to questioning the nature of reality and questioning if there is only one or maybe many. We all have the feeling that this is our story and everyone in it are just players that we encounter in it. And maybe people writers write about could become real, or alternately, have been real and the writer is tapping into their world. This story should be much better known. Definitely a Top Tale.


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We have the story in these editions:

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, trade paperback, Citadel/Kensington, 2017-02-00