Imagination
1953
· English
About this story
An elderly woman offers a spacecraft captain a fortune to take her to Earth before she dies. Since the planet is regarded as legendary, the request puts profit, compassion, and belief into uneasy conflict.
Chronology
Work history
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no later than Feb 11, 1953
Composition: no later than Feb 11, 1953
Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.
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Feb 11, 1953
Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency
Feb 11, 1953
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Oct 1953
First published Oct 1953
Imagination
Appearances in Pulp Magazines 1
Appearances in Magazines 0
No magazine appearances are recorded.
Appearances in Anthologies 3
Space Odisseys
1975 · Weidenfeld Nicoloson
United Kingdom · English
Space Odisseys
1976 · Doubleday
United States · English
Space Odisseys
1978 · Berkeley
United States · English
Appearances in Collections 19
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A Handful of Darkness
1955 · Rich and Cowan
United Kingdom · English
A Handful of Darkness
1957 · Rich and Cowan
United Kingdom · English
A Handful of Darkness
1966 · Panther
United Kingdom · English
A Handful of Darkness
1978 · Gregg Press
United States · English
A Handful of Darkness
1980 · Panther
United Kingdom · English
The Collected Stories vol. 2: Second Variety
1987 · Underwood-Miller
United States · English
The Collected Stories vol. 2: Second Variety
1987 · Underwood-Miller
United States · English
The Collected Stories vol. 2: Second Variety
1987 · Underwood-Miller
United States · English
A Handful of Darkness
1988 · Grafton
United Kingdom · English
The Collected Stories vol. 2: Second Variety
1989 · Gollancz
United Kingdom · English
The Collected Stories vol. 2: Second Variety
1990 · Voyager
United Kingdom · English
The Collected Stories vol. 2: We Can Remember it for You …
1990 · Citadel Twilight
United States · English
The Collected Stories vol. 2: Second Variety
1991 · Grafton
United Kingdom · English
The Collected Stories vol. 2: Second Variety
1999 · Millenium
United Kingdom · English
We Can Remember it for You … and Other Classic Stories
2002 · Citadel
United States · English
The Complete Stories vol. 2: Adjustment Team
2011 · Subterranean Press
United States · English
We Can Remember it for You … and Other Classic Stories
2011 · Citadel
United States · English
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories
January 31, 2017 · Citadel
United States · English
Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 2
2023 · Orion
United Kingdom · English
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Movie and Television Adaptations 1
This story was adapted as an episode of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, a ten-episode Amazon Original anthology series.
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
2017 · Television