Artwork by Peter Strain.

Published by Conversation Tree Press.

Note: There is a limit of one copy per person/household.

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is the seventh title in Short Stops, a series from Conversation Tree Press dedicated to bringing exceptional shorter works of fiction to life through beautifully bound, letterpress-printed, limited editions that begin shipping immediately upon announcement.

What is real? In We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Philip K. Dick brings that question to bear on the most intimate territory imaginable—the memories that form the bedrock of a human life, and how easily, it turns out, they can be bought and sold.

First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1966, and the basis for Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the story follows Douglas Quail, a mild-mannered clerk consumed by an impossible dream: to visit Mars.

Unable to afford the journey, he turns to Rekal, Incorporated, a company that offers something tantalizingly close—implanted memories of an adventure he never had. But something goes wrong, and the line between implanted memory and reality begins to blur.

Compact and relentless, the story moves with the momentum of a thriller while exploring the philosophical terrain that defines Dick’s best work—questions of identity, authenticity, and the nature of reality.

Edition Information:

Artwork: Peter Strain has contributed three full-colour illustrations, printed separately and individually tipped in by hand.
Typography: Interior design and typography are by Tony Geer.
Letterpress printing: Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press printed the edition in Maine (United States) on Neenah Cotton Pearl White Letterpress 118gsm paper.
Binding: Quarter-bound in metallic book cloth and hand-painted paste papers from Victoria Hall. The endpapers are GF Smith Colorplan with a linen finish.
Format: The books have a trim size of 6in × 9in and 42 pages including front and back matter.
Signatures: All copies are signed by the artist.