Mary and the Giant is an early, non-science fiction novel written by Philip K. Dick in the years between 1953 and 1955, but not published until 1987.

Mary Anne Reynolds is also interviewed for a position at the shop, but backs off after Schilling touches her.

Carleton and Mary Anne break up, and she decides to work for Schilling after all, as well as becoming sexually involved with him, despite a forty-year age difference.

He helps her to rent and renovate her own apartment, but Mary Anne decides to live in a dilapidated African American neighbourhood instead.

The author himself once described the novel as "a retelling of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Schilling seduced and destroyed by a young woman".