The Little Black Box (collection)  The Little Black Box is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Gollancz in 1990 and reprints Volume V of "The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick". It had not previously been published as a stand-alone volume. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines "Worlds of Tomorrow", "Galaxy Science Fiction", "Amazing Stories", "Fantasy and Science Fiction", "Famous Science Fiction", "Niekas", "Rolling Stone College Papers", "Interzone", "Playboy", "Omni" and "The Yuba City High Times".