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Author : Michael Bishop
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312890025
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas written by Michael Bishop and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction-roman.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048649733X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly prolific and influential science fiction author Philip K. Dick published 44 novels and more than 120 brief works during his lifetime. This anthology presents his finest short stories and novellas that originally appeared in pulp magazines of the early 1950s. Contents include "The Variable Man," "Second Variety," "Beyond the Door," "The Defenders," and more.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461126386
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Best Early Stories of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more than 120 stories written by Philip K. Dick provide an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection features ten early stories and one novella that represent, in variety and balance, the best early work of America's favorite science fiction author. They are tales in his most bizarre, humorous, and ironic moods. They give the full range and flavor of Philip K. Dick, one of the great masters of the short story and the science fiction genre.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806518565
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Philip K. Dick Reader written by Philip K. Dick and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next "More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." --The Wall Street Journal The Philip K. Dick Reader Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This collection includes some of Dick's earliest short and medium-length fiction, including We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), Second Variety (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), Paycheck, The Minority Report, and twenty more.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443442739
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Exhibit Piece written by Philip K. Dick and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-second century historian George Miller is completely dedicated to his job studying the history and culture of the twentieth century, and has even created an accurate replica of a twentieth-century dwelling. But when George investigates an odd noise in the exhibit, he stumbles upon a strange reality existing inside of his replica. Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and essayist. His first short story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” was published shortly after his high school graduation. Some of his most famous short stories were adapted for film, including “The Minority Report,” “Paycheck,” “Second Variety” (adapted into the film Screamers) and “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” (adapted into the film Total Recall). HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1328995097
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the iconic author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, stories that inspired the original dramatic series. Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In “Autofac,” Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. “Exhibit Piece” and “The Commuter” feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists. And “The Hanging Stranger” provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dick wrote it at the height of the Cold War. Strange, funny, and powerful, the stories in this collection highlight a master at work, encapsulating his boundless imagination and deep understanding of the human condition. Praise for Philip K. Dick “In his top form, Philip K. Dick rivals Kurt Vonnegut.”—New York Times “Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage.”—Roberto Bolaño
Author : Philip K Dick
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473200016
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Three Early Novels written by Philip K Dick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of his career, Philip K. Dick, whose later work won him widespread acclaim as the world's greatest science fiction writer, wrote a number of short novels which were published as paperback originals back-to-back in dual volumes with works by writers who were then more famous. Considerably more straightforward than his later novels, these stories are nevertheless unmistakably the work of the author of DO ANDOIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? and UBIK in their quirky exuberance and originality. THE MAN WHO JAPED: Following a devastating nuclear war, the Moral Reclamation government took over the world and forced its citizens to live by strictly puritanical rules - no premarital sex, drunkenness, or displaying of neon signs - all of which are reinforced through a constant barrage of messaging to the public. The chief purveyor of these messages is Alan Purcell, next in line to become head of the propaganda bureau. But there is just one problem: a statue of the government's founder has been vandalized and the head is hidden in Purcell's closet. VULCAN'S HAMMER: After the 20th century's devastating series of wars, the world's governments banded together into one globe-spanning entity, committed to peace at all costs. Ensuring that peace is the Vulcan supercomputer, responsible for all major decisions. But some people don't like being taken out of the equation. And others resent the idea that the Vulcan is taking the place of God. As the world grows ever closer to all-out war, one functionary frantically tries to prevent it. But the Vulcan computer has its own plans, plans that might not include humanity at all. DR. FUTURITY: When Dr Jim Parsons wakes up from a car accident, he finds himself in a future populated almost entirely by the young. But to keep the world run by the young, death is fetishized, and those who survive to old age are put down. In such a world, Parsons - with his innate desire to save lives - is a criminal and outcast. But for one revolutionary group, he may be just the saviour they need to heal and revive their cryogenically frozen leader. And when he and the group journey to 1500s California, what they find causes them to question what they know about history and the underpinnings of their society.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547549253
Total Pages : 1003 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Exegesis of Philip K Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 1003 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius."-Jonathan Lethem Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick's brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick's life and work.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345253590
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (535 download)
Download or read book The Best of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1977 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780140171730
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Time Out of Joint written by Philip K. Dick and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you've ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep you from knowing who you really are. Which it is, of course."--"Rolling Stone" Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn't consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that's what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet he's never heard of named Marilyn Monroe. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them like "bowl of flowers" and "soft drink stand." When Ragle skips town to try to find the cause of these bizarre occurrences, his discovery could make him question everything he has ever known.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681463636
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Beyond Lies the Wub written by Philip K. Dick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We are a very old race," the wub said. "Very old and very ponderous. It is difficult for us to move around. You can appreciate that anything so slow and heavy would be at the mercy of more agile forms of life. There was no use in our relying on physical defenses. How could we win? Too heavy to run, too soft to fight, too good-natured to hunt for game—"
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547572298
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Ubik written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-bending, classic Philip K. Dick novel about the perception of reality. Named as one of Time's 100 best books.
Author : Philip K Dick
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575098244
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Paycheck written by Philip K Dick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PAYCHECK, originally written as a short story by Philip K. Dick and first published in 1953, centres on an electrician who wakes up to discover his employer has erased his memory of the past two years -- as a security measure. When he tries to collect his paycheck, he finds he has previously signed a release replacing the money with a bag of random objects. Previous film adaptations of Dick's short stories have included the box office smash hits MINORITY REPORT, TOTAL RECALL and BLADE RUNNER, released shortly after Dick died in 1982.
Author : Philip K. Philip K. Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781537543871
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Philip K. Dick Short Stories written by Philip K. Philip K. Dick and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That night at the dinner table he brought it out and set it down beside her plate. Doris stared at it, her hand to her mouth. "My God, what is it?" She looked up at him, bright-eyed."Well, open it."Doris tore the ribbon and paper from the square package with her sharp nails, her bosom rising and falling. Larry stood watching her as she lifted the lid. He lit a cigarette and leaned against the wall."A cuckoo clock!" Doris cried. "A real old cuckoo clock like my mother had." She turned the clock over and over. "Just like my mother had, when Pete was still alive." Her eyes sparkled with tears."It's made in Germany," Larry said. After a moment he added, "Carl got it for me wholesale. He knows some guy in the clock business. Otherwise I wouldn't have-" He stopped.Doris made a funny little sound."I mean, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to afford it." He scowled. "What's the matter with you? You've got your clock, haven't you? Isn't that what you want?"
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Spaight Press
ISBN 13 : 9781447478539
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (785 download)
Download or read book The Unreconstructed M written by Philip K. Dick and published by Spaight Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1955 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Unreconstructed M' is a short story about a murder and faked evidence. Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. Dick and his family moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco when he was young, and later on to Washington DC following his parents divorce. Dick attended Elementary school and then a Quaker school before the family moved back to California. It was around this time that Dick began to take an active interest in the science fiction genre, reading his first magazine 'Stirring Science Stories', at age twelve. Dick married five times between 1959 and 1973, and had three children. He sold his first story in 1951 and from that point on he wrote full-time, selling his first novel in 1955. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. After his death, many of his stories made the transition to the big screen, with blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report being based on his works.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486801500
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven short stories and novellas from 1950s periodicals such as Worlds of Science Fiction, Orbit, and Startling Stories include "Foster, You're Dead," "Prominent Author," "Upon the Dull Earth," and "Adjustment Team."
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312908386
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
Download or read book I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon written by Philip K. Dick and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1987-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together ten previously uncollected stories and a major unpublished essay, which span nearly thirty years of the career of the noted science fiction writer
