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Philip K. Dick
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With a reputation that is still rising as the world catches up with the prodigious outpouring of his imagination, and Hollywood repeatedly raiding his stories—Blade Runner, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly—Philip K. Dick remains an intriguing literary and cultural figure. At a time when most science fiction was about cowboys in outer space, Dick explored the landscapes of the mind, conjured fake realities, and was able to make readers believe six impossible things before breakfast. Perhaps best-known for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, he embodied the counterculture a decade before the 1960s. This fully revised and updated look at Dick's world is a glimpse into a reality where psychiatrists come in suitcases, God speaks through cat food commercials and comes in a handy aerosol can, and where you might be a figment of someone else's imagination. This pocket-sized volume reviews and analyzes each of Dick's novels and provides a listing of other books and articles which have grappled with this genius.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #946879 in Books
- Published on: 2007-07-18
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .43" h x 7.10" w x 5.50" l, .21 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
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From the Back Cover
Almost everything you need to know in one essential guide.
Who was Dick? A freaked-out junkie who took too many drugs? An explorer of madnesswho got too close to his subject and ended up claiming to have met God? A practical joker? The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world?
At a time when most SF was about cowboys in outer space, Dick explored the landscapes of the mind, conjured with fake realities and was able to make you believe six impossible things before breakfast. He embodied the counter-culture a decade before the 1960s.
Perhaps best known for Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - the novel which inspired Blade Runner - Dick's world is one where reality is only provisional, where the President might be an android, where psychiatrists come in suitcases, and where God speaks through cat food commercials and comes in a handy aerosol can. And where you might be a figment of someones else's imagination...
What's in this book? As well as an introductory essay, each of Philip K Dick's novels is reviewed and analysed. And for those who want more, there is a listing of the many other books and articles which have grappled with this genius.
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