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The Philip K. Dick Reader

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806518565
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)

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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.

The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048649733X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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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.

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1328995097
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (289 download)

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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

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596065116
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas written in 1953 and 1954, along with extensive and valuable story notes. Included here are a number of bona fide PKD classics, among them the title story, the brilliantly conceived account of a bizarre, ultimately catastrophic resurrection, 'The Father-Thing,' in which a young boy comes to realize that his once familiar father has somehow changed, and 'The Golden Man' (filmed in 2007 as 'Next'), which tells the tale of a golden skinned mutant who may represent the future direction of the human race. These and all the other stories in this important and necessary book offer a wide range of literary and intellectual pleasures. At the same time, they provide a fascinating glimpse into the continuing development of this iconic and hugely influential figure. --amazon.com

Total Recall

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054404889X
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Total Recall written by Philip K. Dick and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the film Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale, and directed by Len Wiseman. This ebook-only edition of Philip K. Dick’s classic short story tells the story of Douglas Quail, an unfulfilled bureaucrat who dreams of visiting Mars, but can't afford the trip. Luckily, there is Rekal Incorporated, a company that lets everyday stiffs believe they’ve been on incredible adventures. The only problem is that when technicians attempt a memory implant of a spy mission to Mars, they find that real memories of just such a trip are already in Quail's brain. Suddenly, Quail is running for his life from government agents, but his memories might make him more of a liability than he is worth. Originally published as "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale."

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547549253
Total Pages : 1003 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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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.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547572255
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Altered reality, genetic enhancement and drugs combine to create one of the most popular and enduring science fiction novels from award-winning novelist Philip K. Dick.

Paycheck

Author : Philip K Dick
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575098244
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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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.

The Valis Trilogy

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547867735
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Valis Trilogy written by Philip K. Dick and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This e-book only edition brings together the three novels of Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy. VALIS What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s groundbreaking novel, the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy, or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world. The Divine Invasion God is not dead, he has merely been exiled to an extraterrestrial planet. And it is on this planet that God meets Herb Asher and convinces him to help retake Earth from the demonic Belial. As the middlie novel of Dick's VALIS trilogy, The Divine Invasion plays a pivotal role in answering the questions raised by the first novel, expanding that world while exploring just how much anyone can really know -- even God himself. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer The final book in the VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer brings the author’s search for the identity and nature of God to a close. The novel follows Bishop Timothy Archer as he travels to Israel, ostensibly to examine ancient scrolls bearing the words of Christ. But, more importantly, this leads him to examine the decisions he made during his life and how they may have contributed to the suicide of his mistress and son.

The Best of Philip K. Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Echo Point+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1648370004
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Echo Point+ORM. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen short stories by the legendary author of The Man in the High Castle and other science fiction classics. Philip K. Dick didn’t predict the future―he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn’t predict the Internet or iPhones or email or 3D printers, but rather he so thoroughly understood human nature that he could already see, even at the advent of the transistor, the way technology would alienate us from each other and from ourselves. He could see us isolated and drifting in our own private realities even before we had plugged in our ear buds. He could see, even in the earliest days of space exploration, how much of our own existence remained unexplored, and how the great black spaces between people were growing even as our universe was shrinking. Philip K. Dick spent his first three years as a science fiction author writing shorter fiction, and in his lifetime he composed almost 150 short stories, many of which have gone on to be adapted into (slightly watered down) Hollywood blockbusters. Collected here are thirteen of his most Dickian tales, funhouse realities with trap doors and hidden compartments.

The Variable Man

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Variable Man written by Philip K. Dick and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Variable Man" by Philip K. Dick is a classic science fiction short story that delves into themes of reality, technology, and the unpredictability of human behavior. In this thought-provoking narrative, Dick introduces readers to a future society where technological advancements include a process called "Warping," allowing individuals to foresee potential outcomes of various scenarios. The protagonist, a repairman named Joe Fernwright, becomes an unexpected variable in the system due to his unpredictable decisions. As he faces a critical decision that could impact the fate of a war between Earth and a distant planet, Fernwright's actions challenge the deterministic nature of the advanced technology surrounding him. Dick's "The Variable Man" is a captivating exploration of free will, the consequences of choices, and the inherent uncertainties within complex systems. With its blend of speculative elements and philosophical inquiries, this short story continues to resonate with fans of science fiction, showcasing Dick's unique narrative style and his ability to weave intricate tales that question the nature of reality.

Exhibit Piece

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443442739
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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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.

The Philip K. Dick Collection

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1598530496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Philip K. Dick Collection written by Philip K. Dick and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects thirteen definitive works by the eminent science-fiction master, in a chronologically arranged, three-volume boxed set that includes such titles as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544040546
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains twenty-one stories that span the iconoclastic science fiction writer's entire career.

Minority Report

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780575074781
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Minority Report written by Philip K. Dick and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise. In addition to 'Minority Report' this exclusive collection includes nine other outstanding short stories by the twentieth century's outstanding sf master, three of which have been made into feature films.

A Scanner Darkly

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345260642
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book A Scanner Darkly written by Philip K. Dick and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1977 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596063396
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas by Dick, one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. They provide an ideal introduction to one of the most singular imaginations of the modern era.