โ Scribed by Philip k Dick
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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), "Paychecks", "The Minority Report", and 21 more.
Content:
"Fair Game" (1959)
"The Hanging Stranger" (1953)
""The Eyes Have It"" (1953)
"The Golden Man" (1954)
"The Turning Wheel" (1954)
"The Last of the Masters" (1954)
"The Father-Thing" (1954)
"Strange Eden" (1954)
"Tony and the Beetles" (1954)
"Null-O" (1958)
"To Serve the Master" (1956)
"Exhibit Piece" (1954)
"The Crawlers" (1954)
"Sales Pitch" (1954)
"Shell Game" (1954)
"Upon the Dull Earth" (1954)
"Foster, You're Dead!" (1955)
"Pay for the Printer" (1956)
"War Veteran" (1955)
"The Chromium Fence" (1955)
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)
"The Minority Report" (1956)
"Paycheck" (1953)
"Second Variety" (1953)
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SUMMARY: Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to
Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to Kafka and
Beyond lies the wub -- Roog -- Paycheck -- Second variety -- Imposter -- The king of the elves -- Adjustment team -- Foster, you're dead -- Upon the dull earth -- Autofac -- The minority report -- The days of perky Pat -- Precious artifact -- A game of unchance -- We can remember it for you wholesal