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Short Story

The Days of Perky Pat

1963

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About this story

Survivors of nuclear war devote their attention to elaborate games recreating the comforts of the lost world. An encounter with a neighboring group's different doll unsettles the refuge they have built in nostalgia.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Apr 18, 1963

    Composition: no later than Apr 18, 1963

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Apr 18, 1963

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Apr 18, 1963

  3. Dec 1963

    First published Dec 1963

    Amazing Stories

  4. Basis for The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

    Dick described the Perky Pat story as generating/providing a thematic basis for the novel.

    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

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