Thom Birgel Birgel من عند Neffiès, فرنسا
Recommended by Marie; discussion at La Brioche (University Ave)
Well, crap. Apparently young Philip K. Dick was a terrible writer. Even the story this collection is named after was shockingly mediocre, and nothing I've read in this matches the literary subtlety or inherent weirdness of Dick's novels. Oh, well.