This a previously-published edition of ISBN13: 9780141186672 .

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

It takes an alien race to show us what humanity truly is. This is the irony faced by a group of friends whose lives are changed forever when the mysterious alien race known as the Kethani come to Earth bearing an amazing gift: immortality. These superbly crafted episodes deal with human emotions in the face of the vast consequences of the alien arrival, and show how people across the world react to this benign invasion, how ultimately we evolve as we gain the stars.

7 • Prelude: The Coming of the Kéthani • [Kéthani Stories] • (2008) • short story by Eric Brown
19 • Ferryman • [Kéthani Stories] • (1997) • short story by Eric Brown
41 • Onward Station • [Kéthani Stories] • (1998) • short story by Eric Brown
65 • The Kéthani Inheritance • [Kéthani Stories] • (2001) • novelette by Eric Brown
95 • Thursday's Child • [Kéthani Stories] • (2002) • novelette by Eric Brown
131 • The Touch of Angels • [Kéthani Stories] • (2006) • novelette by Eric Brown
169 • The Wisdom of the Dead • [Kéthani Stories] • (2003) • short story by Eric Brown
193 • A Heritage of Stars • [Kéthani Stories] • (2005) • short story by Eric Brown
215 • Matthew's Passion • [Kéthani Stories] • (2008) • short story by Tony Ballantyne and Eric Brown
245 • A Choice of Eternities • [Kéthani Stories] • (2004) • short story by Eric Brown
269 • The Farewell Party • [Kéthani Stories] • (2007) • short story by Eric Brown
293 • Coda: Diaspora • [Kéthani Stories] • (2008) • short story by Eric Brown