Rank your Top 10 Favorite Philip K. Dick Short Stories

[Die Math]

In this thread, please rank your ten favorite Philip K Dick stories. Your favorite story should be numbered 1, while your less preferred stories should ascend down to the number 10. If you haven't read or like 10 of his stories, you don't have to fill out a complete list, but I will only include submissions for those who have ranked at least 5 stories.

Once I have sufficient results, I'll put the details into a spreadsheet and create a table to share with the respondents. Thanks for participating!

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

It's difficult for me to put these in an exact order, but I'll do the best I can.

1. "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"

2. "The Electric Ant"

3. "The Preserving Machine"

4. "Oh, to be a Blobel!"

5. "Second Variety"

 

[Die Math]

Here's mine:

1. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
2. Faith of Our Fathers
3. The Electric Ant
4. Second Variety
5. The Exit Door Leads In
6. Autofac
7. The Father-thing
8. The Days of Perky Pat
9. The Preserving Machine
10. The Hanging Stranger

 

[johnnyjet]

Ah, so many to pick from.... I'll get back to you later on this.

 

[johnnyjet]

My Favorites (though tomorrow the list might be different):

1. "Second Variety"
2. "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"
3. "Autofac"
4. "The Pre-persons"
5. "The Electric Ant"
6. "The Father-thing"
7. "The Preserving Machine"
8. "Faith of Our Fathers"
9. "If There Were No Benny Cemoli"
10. "Beyond Lies the Wub"

 

[Rodders]

I'm not too familiar with the titles, but of the ones I remember;

Second Variety
Beyond Lies The Wub
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.
Minority Report.
Paycheck (I even enjoyed the film.)

I remember one story about some really small people escaping. The implication was that god was going to replace humans, but the newer creatures turned out to be pests too. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called.

 

[Guttersnipe]

"Beyond Lies the Wub"
"I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon"
"Small Town"
"Beyond the Door"
"Human Is"
"King of the Elves"
"The Father-thing"
"The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford"
"The Cookie Lady"
"Autofac"

 

[pickinanameainteasy]

Of the ones I've read I'd rank:

1. Second Variety
2. The Builder
3. Paycheck
4. The Skull
5. The Defenders
6. The Indefatigable Frog
7. Mr. Spaceship
8. Roog
9. The Crystal Crypt
10. Nanny

 

[Don]

1. The Golden Man
2. Paycheck
3. Imposter
4. Second Variety
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Breakfast at Twilight
Colony
The Minority Report
Sales Pitch
Beyond Lies the Wub

It's hard for me to rank the bottom of the list. Movies led me to discover most of these PKD short stories. Fans elsewhere tell me that Lem movies out number PKD movies.