A Life Of Philip K Dick

Author : Anthony Peake
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782129141

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A Life of Philip K. Dick by Anthony Peake Pdf

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.

Author : Lawrence Sutin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0575078588

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Divine Invasions by Lawrence Sutin Pdf

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.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547549255

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The Exegesis of Philip K Dick by Philip K. Dick Pdf

"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.

Author : Kyle Arnold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199743254

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The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick by Kyle Arnold Pdf

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.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547572291

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Ubik by Philip K. Dick Pdf

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

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547572482

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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Pdf

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.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780679747871

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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick Pdf

“What Kafka was to the first half of the twentieth century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”—Art Spiegelman, author of MAUS Philip K. Dick was both our most brilliant science fiction writer and a visionary philosopher who chose to couch his speculations in fiction. For, as he wrote about androids and virtual reality, schizophrenic prophets and amnesiac gods, Dick was also posing fundamental questions: What is reality? What is sanity? And what is human? This unprecedented collection of Dick’s literary and philosophical writings acquaints us with the astonishing range and eloquence of his lifelong inquiry. The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick includes autobiography, critiques of science fiction, and dizzyingly provocative essays such as “The Android and the Human” and “If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others.” Readers will also find two chapters of a proposed sequel to Dick’s award-winning novel The Man in the High Castle and selections from the metaphysical Exegesis that inspired his classic VALIS. Witty, erudite, and exploding with intellectual shrapnel, this is the last testament of an American original. This collection confirms Dick’s reputation as one of the foremost imaginative thinkers of the twentieth century. “A wide-ranging selection of free-wheeling philosophical essays, and journal entries; humorous, thoughtful speeches; and plot scenarios. . . . For both casual and serious Dick fans, The Shifting Realities unearths some gems.”—Boston Phoenix

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Impostors and imposture
ISBN : 0345260643

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A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Pdf

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.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806537948

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The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick Pdf

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.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547572253

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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Altered reality, genetic enhancement and drugs combine to create one of the most popular and enduring science fiction novels from award-winning novelist Philip K. Dick.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547572543

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Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick Pdf

A wry look at how different people see the world, told in the caustically fun style of award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.

Author : Laurent Queyssi,Mauro Marchesi
Publisher : NBM
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681121932

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Philip K. Dick by Laurent Queyssi,Mauro Marchesi Pdf

One of the greatest writers in science fiction history, Philip K. Dick is mostly remembered for such works as Blade Runner, Minority Report, and Total Recall. His dark, fascinating work centered on alternate universes and shifting realities in worlds often governed by monopolistic corporations and authoritarian governments. His own life story seems a tussle with reality, cycling through five marriages and becoming increasingly disjointed with fits of paranoia and hallucinations fueled by abuse of drugs meant to stabilize him. His dramatic story is presented unvarnished in this biography.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Echo Point+ORM
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648370007

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The Best of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Thirteen short stories by the legendary author of The Man in the High Castle and other science fiction classics. Philip K. Dick didn’t predict the future―he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn’t predict the Internet or iPhones or email or 3D printers, but rather he so thoroughly understood human nature that he could already see, even at the advent of the transistor, the way technology would alienate us from each other and from ourselves. He could see us isolated and drifting in our own private realities even before we had plugged in our ear buds. He could see, even in the earliest days of space exploration, how much of our own existence remained unexplored, and how the great black spaces between people were growing even as our universe was shrinking. Philip K. Dick spent his first three years as a science fiction author writing shorter fiction, and in his lifetime he composed almost 150 short stories, many of which have gone on to be adapted into (slightly watered down) Hollywood blockbusters. Collected here are thirteen of his most Dickian tales, funhouse realities with trap doors and hidden compartments.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Namaskar Books
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Author : Gregg Rickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UOM:49015000948936

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To the High Castle by Gregg Rickman Pdf