With one exception, all the stories here were written between 1951 & 1952, when Dick was making his first impact as a writer.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 1857988795
Category: Science fiction
Page: 416
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A matchless display of Philip K. Dick's quirky, humorous, idiosyncratically philosophical world view. With one exception, all the stories of this volume were written over a nine-month period between 1951 and 1952, when Dick was making his first impact as a writer.$28.00] HIGHER IN CANADA SELECTED STORIES OE PHILIP K. DICK contains twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a World-class Writer Working at the peak of his powers.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780544040540
Category: Fiction
Page: 485
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Features twenty-one stories from the well-known science fiction writer, including "Beyond Lies the Wub," " The Days of Perky Pat," and "The Electric Ant."The collection also includes such classic stories as “The Minority Report,” the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie, and “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” the basis for the film Total Recall.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780544040601
Category: Fiction
Page: 480
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dick’s most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers. In “The Days of Perky Pat,” people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth’s real inhabitants. “Adjustment Team” looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In “Autofac,” one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,” we follow the story of one man whose very reality may be nothing more than a nightmare. The collection also includes such classic stories as “The Minority Report,” the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie, and “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” the basis for the film Total Recall. With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a magnificent distillation of one of American literature's most searching imaginations.This collection draws from the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including several previously unpublished stories), written during the years 1952-1955, and features such fascinating stories as Paycheck (adapted as a major ...
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780806537962
Category: Fiction
Page: 0
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With a Preface by the Author and an Introduction by Roger Zelazny "The collected stories of Philip K. Dick are awe inspiring." --The Washington Post Readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. This collection draws from the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including several previously unpublished stories), written during the years 1952-1955, and features such fascinating stories as Paycheck (adapted as a major motion picture starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman), Beyond Lies the Wub, The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, The Variable Man, and many others. Here, readers will find Dick's initial explorations of the themes he so brilliantly brought to life in his later work. 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? More recently, Dick's short story The Minority Report inspired Steven Spielberg's movie of the same title. The classic stories of Philip K. Dick offer an intriguing glimpse into the imagination of one of science fiction's most enduring and respected names. "Philip K. Dick's best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable." --The New York Times Book Review "More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." --The Wall Street JournalThe Minority Report: The Collected Stories ofPhilip K. Dick Volume 4, 1987. Rpt. New York: Citadel, 1991. Second Variety: Volume 2 ofthe Collected Stories ofPhilip K. Dick, 1987. Rpt. London: HarperCollins, 1994.
Author: Umberto Rossi
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786486298
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 316
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Philip K. Dick was one of the most popular science fiction novelists of the 20th century, but the contradictory and wily writer has troubled critics who attempt encompassing explanations of his work. This book examines Dick’s writing through the lens of ontological uncertainty, providing a comparative map of his oeuvre, tracing both the interior connections between books and his allusive intertextuality. Topics covered include time travel, alternate worlds, androids and simulacra, finite subjective realities and schizophrenia. Twenty novels are explored in detail, including titles that have received scant critical attention. Some of his most important short stories and two of his realist novels are also examined, providing a general introduction to Dick’s body of work.In The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick , Volume 1 : The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford , 308. 1987. New York : Citadel - Carol , 1990 . Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? New York : Del Rey - Ballantine ...
Author: Jason P. Vest
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803218605
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 260
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Examines the first eight cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction in light of their literary sources.This is a collection of seven short science fiction novels by Phillip K. Dick written in the 1950s. The seven stories in this collection were written by Dick for several popular science fiction and fantasy magazines.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 1451546092
Category: Fiction
Page: 168
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This is a collection of seven short science fiction novels by Philip K. Dick written in the 1950s. Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. This early time period from Dick's life was a difficult and impoverished time for him. He sold his first story in 1951. The seven stories in this collection were written by Dick for several popular science fiction and fantasy magazines that were published in the 1950s. These stories are selected from more than 120 short science fiction novels that he wrote for the magazines. The seven stories are "Beyond Lies the Wub", "Beyond the Door", "The Crystal Crypt", "The Defenders", "The Eyes Have It", "The Gun", and "The Skull". It is a pleasure to collect and publish these stories in this new, high quality, and affordable edition.Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern examines a wide range of Dick’s work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels.
Author: Christopher Palmer
Publisher: Liverpool Science Fiction Text
ISBN: 0853236283
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 0
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Once solely the possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films Blade Runner and Minority Report shows. The kind of world he predicted in his funny and frightening novels and stories is coming closer to most of us: shifting realities, unstable relations, uncertain moralities. Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern examines a wide range of Dick’s work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels. Christopher Palmer analyzes the puzzling and dazzling effects of Dick’s fiction, and argues that at its heart is a clash between exhilarating possibilities of transformation, and a frightening lack of ethical certainties. Dick’s work is seen as the inscription of his own historical predicament, the clash between humanism and postmodernism being played out in the complex forms of the fiction. The problem is never resolved, but Dick’s ways of imagining it become steadily more ingenious and challenging.This volume of the classic stories of Philip K. Dick offers an intriguing glimpse into the early imagination of one of science fiction's most enduring and respected names.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 0806512091
Category: Fiction
Page: 402
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This volume of the classic stories of Philip K. Dick offers an intriguing glimpse into the early imagination of one of science fiction's most enduring and respected names. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's work has continued to mount and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention as well as many films based on his stories and novels. Featuring the story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, which inspired the major motion picture Total Recall, this collection draws from the writer's earliest fiction, written during the years 1952-55. Also included are fascinating works such as The Adjustment Team (basis of the 2011 movie The Adjustment Bureau), Impostor (basis of the 2001 movie), and many others. "A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection." --Kirkus Reviews "More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." --Wall Street Journal "The collected stories of Philip K. Dick are awe-inspiring." --Washington Post