The Philip K. Dick reader.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Citadel Press, 1997.Description: 422 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0806518561 (pbk.)
- 9780806518565 (pbk.)
- Short stories. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Dick, Philip K | Available | 33111005416314 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Fair game -- Hanging stranger -- Eyes have it -- Golden man -- Turning wheel -- Last of the masters -- Father-thing -- Strange Eden -- Tony and the Beetles -- Null-o -- To serve the master -- Exhibit piece -- Crawlers -- Sales pitch -- Shell game -- Upon the dull Earth -- Foster, you're dead -- Pay for the printer -- War veteran -- Chromium fence -- We can remember it for you wholesale -- Minority report -- Paycheck -- Second variety.