I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (collection)

For the Philip K. Dick story for which this collection is named, see I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon.

I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author(s)	Philip K. Dick
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	1985
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	179 pp
ISBN	0-385-19567-2
OCLC Number	11574322
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Classification	PS3554.I3 I2 1985

I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon is a book by Philip K. Dick, a collection of 10 science fiction short stories and one essay. It was first published by Doubleday in 1985 and was edited by Mark Hurst and Paul Williams. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Worlds of Tomorrow, Amazing Stories, Interzone, Rolling Stone College Papers, The Yuba City High Times, Omni and Playboy.

"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later"
"The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford"
"Explorers We"
"Holy Quarrel"
"What'll We Do with Ragland Park?"
"Strange Memories of Death"
"The Alien Mind"
"The Exit Door Leads In"
"Chains of Air, Web of Aether"
"Rautavaara's Case"
"I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon"

References

"Internet Speculative Fiction Database". http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?HPSHLLRRVS1985. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)". http://www.locusmag.com/index/t20.htm#A1896. Retrieved 2008-01-11.

Works of Philip K. Dick

Novels

1950s	Gather Yourselves Together (1950) · Voices from the Street (1952) · Vulcan's Hammer (1953) · Dr. Futurity (1953) · The Cosmic Puppets (1953) · Solar Lottery (1954) · Mary and the Giant (1954) · The World Jones Made (1954) · Eye in the Sky (1955) · The Man Who Japed (1955) · A Time for George Stavros (1956) · Pilgrim on the Hill (1956) · The Broken Bubble (1956) · Puttering About in a Small Land (1957) · Nicholas and the Higs (1958) · Time Out of Joint (1958) · In Milton Lumky Territory (1958) · Confessions of a Crap Artist (1959)

1960s	The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (1960) · Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (1960) · The Man in the High Castle (1961) · We Can Build You (1962) · Martian Time-Slip (1962) · Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1963) · The Game-Players of Titan (1963) · The Simulacra (1963) · The Crack in Space (1963) · Now Wait for Last Year (1963) · Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964) · The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) · The Zap Gun (1964) · The Penultimate Truth (1964) · Deus Irae (1964) · The Unteleported Man (1964) · The Ganymede Takeover (1965) · Counter-Clock World (1965) · Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1966) · Nick and the Glimmung (1966) · Ubik (1966) · Galactic Pot-Healer (1968) · A Maze of Death (1968) · Our Friends from Frolix 8 (1969)

1970s	Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) · A Scanner Darkly (1977) · Radio Free Albemuth (1976)

1980s	VALIS (1981) · The Divine Invasion (1981) · The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982) · The Owl in Daylight (unfinished)

Short story collections

1950s	A Handful of Darkness (1955) · The Variable Man (1956)

1960s	The Preserving Machine (1969)

1970s	The Book of Philip K. Dick (1973) · The Best of Philip K. Dick (1977)

1980s	The Golden Man (1980) · Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities (1984) · I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1985) · The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (1987) · Beyond Lies the Wub (1988) · The Dark Haired Girl (1989) · The Father-Thing (1989) · Second Variety (1989)

1990s	The Days of Perky Pat (1990) · The Little Black Box (1990) · The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990) · We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990) · The Minority Report (1991) · Second Variety (1991) · The Eye of the Sibyl (1992) · The Philip K. Dick Reader (1997)

2000s	Minority Report (2002) · Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick (2002) · Paycheck (2004) · Vintage PKD (2006)

Short stories

1950s	"Beyond Lies the Wub" (1952) · "The Gun" (1952) · "The Skull" (1952) · "The Little Movement" (1952) · "The Defenders" (1953) · "Mr. Spaceship" (1953) · "Piper in the Woods" (1953) · "Roog" (1953) · "The Infinities" (1953) · "Second Variety" (1953) · "The World She Wanted" (1953) · "Colony" (1953) · "The Cookie Lady" (1953) · "Impostor" (1953) · "Martians Come in Clouds" (1953) · "Paycheck" (1953) · "The Preserving Machine" (1953) · "The Cosmic Poachers" (1953) · "Expendable" (1953) · "The Indefatigable Frog" (1953) · "The Commuter" (1953) · "Out in the Garden" (1953) · "The Great C" (1953) · "The King of the Elves" (1953) · "The Trouble with Bubbles" (1953) · "The Variable Man" (1953) · "The Impossible Planet" (1953) · "Planet for Transients" (1953) · "Some Kinds of Life" (1953) · "The Builder" (1953) · "The Hanging Stranger" (1953) · "Project: Earth" (1953) · "The Eyes Have It" (1953) · "Tony and the Beetles" (1953) · "Prize Ship" (1954) · "Beyond the Door" (1954) · "The Crystal Crypt" (1954) · "A Present for Pat" (1954) · "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford" (1954) · "The Golden Man" (1954) · "James P. Crow" (1954) · "Prominent Author" (1954) · "Small Town" (1954) · "Survey Team" (1954) · "Sales Pitch" (1954) · "Time Pawn" (1954) · "Breakfast at Twilight" (1954) · "The Crawlers" (1954) · "Of Withered Apples" (1954) · "Exhibit Piece" (1954) · "Adjustment Team" (1954) · "Shell Game" (1954) · "Meddler" (1954) · "Souvenir" (1954) · "A World of Talent" (1954) · "The Last of the Masters" (1954) · "Progeny" (1954) · "Upon the Dull Earth" (1954) · "The Father-thing" (1954) · "Strange Eden" (1954) · "Jon's World" (1954) · "The Turning Wheel" (1954) · "Foster, You're Dead!" (1955) · "Human Is" (1955) · "War Veteran" (1955) · "Captive Market" (1955) · "Nanny" (1955) · "The Hood Maker" (1955) · "The Chromium Fence" (1955) · "Service Call" (1955) · "A Surface Raid" (1955) · "The Mold of Yancy" (1955) · "Autofac" (1955) · "Psi-man Heal My Child!" (1955) · "The Minority Report" (1956) · "To Serve the Master" (1956) · "Pay for the Printer" (1956) · "A Glass of Darkness" (1956) · "The Unreconstructed M" (1957) · "Misadjustment" (1957) · "Null-O" (1958) · "Explorers We" (1959) · "Recall Mechanism" (1959) · "Fair Game" (1959) · "War Game" (1959)

1960s	"All We Marsmen" (1963) · "Stand-by" (1963) · "What'll We Do with Ragland Park?" (1963) · "The Days of Perky Pat" (1963) · "If There Were No Benny Cemoli" (1963) · "Waterspider" (1964) · "Novelty Act" (1964) · "Oh, to Be a Blobel!" (1964) · "The War with the Fnools" (1964) · "What the Dead Men Say" (1964) · "Orpheus with Clay Feet" (1964) · "Cantata 140" (1964) · "A Game of Unchance" (1964) · "The Little Black Box" (1964) · "Precious Artifact" (1964) · "The Unteleported Man" (1964) · "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) · "Project Plowshare" (1965) · "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966) · "Holy Quarrel" (1966) · "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday" (1966) · "Return Match" (1967) · "Faith of Our Fathers" (1967) · "Not by Its Cover" (1968) · "The Story to End All Stories" (1968) · "The Electric Ant" (1969) · "A. Lincoln, Simulacrum" (1969)

1970s	"The Pre-persons" (1974) · "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts" (1974) · "The Exit Door Leads In" (1979)

1980s	"Chains of Air, Web of Aethyr" (1980) · "Rautavaara's Case" (1980) · "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (1980) · "The Alien Mind" (1981) · "Strange Memories of Death" (1984) · "Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked" (1987) · "The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree" (1987) · "The Eye of the Sibyl" (1987) · "Stability" (1987) · "Goodbye, Vincent" (1988)

Film and television adaptations

1980s	Blade Runner (1982)

1990s	Total Recall (1990) · Confessions d'un Barjo (1992) · Screamers (1995) · Total Recall 2070 (1999 TV series)

2000s	Impostor (2002) · Minority Report (2002) · Paycheck (2003) · A Scanner Darkly (2006) · Next (2007) · Screamers: The Hunting (2009)

2010s	Radio Free Albemuth (2011) · The Adjustment Bureau (2011) · Total Recall (2012) · King of the Elves (2013)

I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (collection)

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