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In total, I count 14 books with titles chosen by the publisher/editor:

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    Dr. Bloodmoney
    The Simulacrum
    Ubik
    We Can Build You
    Martian Time-Slip
    The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
    The Divine Invasion
    A Maze of Death
    Counterclock World
    Radio Free Albemuth
    Solar Lottery
    The Zap Gun [1]
    The World Jones Made

Among his notable works, the only titles PKD came up with were The Man in the High Castle, VALIS, Flow My Tears, Palmer Eldritch, and A Scanner Darkly.

So. Yes, most.

Editors changed his shorts, too. I love the title "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", but PKD wanted to call it "Frozen Journey".

[1] This one was unusual in that the editor gave PKD the title and asked him to write a plot around it.

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> Most of the above are his titles

Back to original list from the parent comment that is the "above" in my comment. X denotes PKD title, O denotes otherwise:

X Time Out of Joint

X The Man in the High Castle

O Martian Time-Slip

X The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

X Clans of the Alphane Moon

X The Simulacra

X Now Wait for Last Year

O Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)/Blade Runner (1982)

O Ubik

O We Can Build You

X Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

X A Scanner Darkly

O The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

O Radio Free Albemuth

So..."most" of what exactly?

You're being needlessly pedantic.

But in the name of pedantry, you also have The Simulacra wrong. PKD's manuscript for The Simulacra was called "First Lady of Earth".

I'm just pointing out that my comment was about the list provided by the commenter above and "most" was about that list rather than all of PKD's work. What you refer to as "pedantic", I consider precision and talking about what's being discussed; someone asks "are these his titles", the answer was "yes. most of these are". Nothing more, nothing less.

I'm not talking about the earlier comment at all, but rather about the entirety of PKD's output.

Great. Good job doing your research, but your input and cross-link were not relevant to this thread focusing on that earlier comment.

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