A Life of Philip K Dick

A Life of Philip K  Dick
Author: Anthony Peake
Publsiher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781782129141

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Philip K. Dick was a writer who drew upon his own life to address the nature of drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia and transcendental experiences of all kinds. More than 10 major Hollywood movies are based on his work including Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau. Born in 1929 just before the Great Crash, Dick's twin sister died when she was a month old and his parents were divorced by the time he was three. In his teens, he began to show the first signs of mental instability, but by then he was already producing fiction writing of a visionary nature.

Divine Invasions

Divine Invasions
Author: Lawrence Sutin
Publsiher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2006
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 0575078588

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A biography of one of the most culturally significant authors in the world. Philip K Dick loosened the bonds of the genre, ultimately making his reputation as a literary writer who happened to write speculative fiction.

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 1003
Release: 2011-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780547549255

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"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.

The Divine Madness of Philip K Dick

The Divine Madness of Philip K  Dick
Author: Kyle Arnold
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780199743254

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The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick, written by a psychologist, investigates the inner world of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. In 1974, Dick was beset by religious visions, and warned police he was an android. The book explores whether Dick's experience was a spiritual awakening or caused by mental illness.

Ubik

Ubik
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780547572291

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A mind-bending, classic Philip K. Dick novel about the perception of reality. Named as one of Time's 100 best books.

The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780547572482

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Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.

A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publsiher: Del Rey
Total Pages: 291
Release: 1977
Genre: Impostors and imposture
ISBN: 0345260643

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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 Philip K Dick Reader

The Philip K  Dick Reader
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publsiher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780806537948

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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.