Status Updates From The Philip K. Dick Reader

Tony and the Beetles is a quick, dark story about humanity's eternal strife and conquest. The need to take, expand, exploit through violence.
There might be nods to the American Civil War in there too.
And it's all wrapped in a young boy's hopeful day of laying with his friends and dreaming of larger things.
Quite a gut punch.

Finished "The Hanging Stranger"

Professor Douglas discusses what he saw with two scientist colleagues.

Strange Eden is a short little story that does everything it can to make you hate the blustering, impulsive, rapist POV character and humanity as a whole. Quite cathartic ending.

The Father-Thing was great. Some Edgar-Suit vibes.
I can see a lot of things that these stories influenced. Cyberpunk(of course), Man in Black, Fallout.