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Galactic Pot-Healer

Author	: Philip K. Dick
Publisher	: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date	: 2013
ISBN	: 0547572646
Pages	: 195 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Galactic Pot-Healer written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glimmung is a mysterious alien, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In this hilarious Philip K. Dick novel, it recruits a disparate group of humans and aliens to help it raise a ruined temple from the bottom of the ocean.

Pink Beam

Author	: Lord Rc
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	: 2007-07-01
ISBN	: 1430324376
Pages	: 324 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Pink Beam written by Lord Rc and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the novels and short stories of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)with presentation of a literary chronology of his career.

Philip K. Dick

Author	: David Sandner
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2020-03-10
ISBN	: 1476639191
Pages	: 226 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Philip K. Dick written by David Sandner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer of science fiction. His works speak to contemporary fears of being continually watched by technology, and the paranoia of modern life in which we watch ourselves and lose our sense of identity. Since his death in 1982, Dick's writing remain frighteningly relevant to 21st century audiences. Dick spent his life in near poverty and it was only after his death that he gained popular and critical recognition. In this new collection of essays, interviews, and talks, Philip K Dick is rediscovered. Concentrating both on recent critical studies and on reassessing his legacy in light of his new status as a "major American author," these essays explore, just what happened culturally and critically to precipitate his extraordinary rise in reputation. The essays look for his traces in the places he lived, in the SF community he came from, and in his influence on contemporary American literature and culture, and beyond.

Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages

Author	:
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2006-06
ISBN	: 0313021937
Pages	: 265 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages written by and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Think I Am

Author	: Laurence A. Rickels
Publisher	: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN	: 0816666652
Pages	: 451 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book I Think I Am written by Laurence A. Rickels and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aside from its perfect fit of critic and subject, Laurence A. Rickels's book provides the most thorough and exhaustive reading of Philip K. Dick's literary work that exists. He goes through all the novels literally, both the science fiction works and the so-called mainstream novels Dick did not publish in his lifetime. The reader of science fiction should welcome a book like this, which is both knowledgeable of the SF tradition tradition and creatively analytical. I could not put this book down once I began to read it".---George Slusser, University of California, Riverside --

The Sex Column and Other Misprints

Author	: David Langford
Publisher	: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date	: 2005-07-01
ISBN	: 1930997787
Pages	: 246 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Sex Column and Other Misprints written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of columns by the author, some previously published in SFX magazine.

The Philosophy of Science Fiction

Author	: James Edward Burton
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2015-09-24
ISBN	: 1474227686
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Science Fiction written by James Edward Burton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick explores the deep affinity between two seemingly quite different thinkers, in their attempts to address the need for salvation in (and from) an era of accelerated mechanization, in which humans' capacity for destroying or subjugating the living has attained a planetary scale. The philosopher and the science fiction writer come together to meet the contradictory imperatives of a realist outlook-a task which, arguably, philosophy and science fiction could only ever adequately undertake in collaboration. Their respective approaches meet in a focus on the ambiguous status of fictionalizing, or fabulation, as simultaneously one of mechanization's most devastating tools, and the possibility of its undoing. When they are read together, the complexities and paradoxes thrown up by this ambiguity, with which both Bergson and Dick struggle on their own, open up new ways to navigate ideas of mechanism and mysticism, immanence and transcendence, and the possibility and meaning of salvation. The result is at once an original reading of both thinkers, a new critical theory of the socio–cultural, political and ethical function of fictionalizing, and a case study in the strange affinity, at times the uncanny similarity, between philosophy and science fiction.

Vintage PKD

Author	: Philip K. Dick
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2007-12-18
ISBN	: 0307430049
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Vintage PKD written by Philip K. Dick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of science fiction, a voice of the changing counterculture, and a genuine visionary, Philip K. Dick wrote about reality, entropy, deception, and the plight of being alive in the modern world. Through his remarkable career Dick has established himself as a writer of the first order and his dreams of the future have proven to be eerily prophetic and even more prescient than when he wrote them. Vintage PKD features extracts from The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, VALIS, and stories including “The Days of Perky Pat,” “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts," and “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,” along with essays and letters currently unavailable in book form. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.

Understanding Philip K. Dick

Author	: Eric Carl Link
Publisher	: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date	: 2022-11-03
ISBN	: 1643363468
Pages	: 193 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Philip K. Dick written by Eric Carl Link and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the fantastic world of a science fiction legend Author of more than forty novels and myriad short stories over a three-decade literary career, Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) single-handedly reshaped twentieth-century science fiction. His influence has only increased since his death with the release of numerous feature films and television series based on his work, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The Man in the High Castle. In Understanding Philip K. Dick, Eric Carl Link introduces readers to the life, career, and work of this groundbreaking, prolific, and immeasurably influential force in American literature, media culture, and contemporary science fiction. Dick was at times a postmodernist, a mainstream writer, a pulp fiction writer, and often all three simultaneously, but as Link illustrates, he was more than anything else a novelist of ideas. From this vantage point, Link surveys Dick's tragicomic biography, his craft and career, and the recurrent ideas and themes that give shape and significance to his fiction. Link finds across Dick's writing career an intellectual curiosity that transformed his science fiction novels from bizarre pulp extravaganzas into philosophically challenging explorations of the nature of reality, and it is this depth of vision that continues to garner new audiences and fresh approaches to Dick's genre-defining tales.

Science Fact and Science Fiction

Author	: Brian Stableford
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2006-09-06
ISBN	: 1135923744
Pages	: 576 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Science Fact and Science Fiction written by Brian Stableford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature

Author	: R. Reginald
Publisher	: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date	: 2010-09
ISBN	: 0941028763
Pages	: 800 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1

Author	: R. Reginald
Publisher	: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date	: 2010-09
ISBN	: 0941028755
Pages	: 800 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Philip K. Dick

Author	: Andrew M. Butler
Publisher	: Oldcastle Books
Release Date	: 2012-05-24
ISBN	: 1842439197
Pages	: 160 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Philip K. Dick written by Andrew M. Butler and published by Oldcastle Books. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Dick? A freaked-out junkie who took too many drugs? An explorer of madness who go too close to his subject and ended up claiming to have met God? A practical joker? The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world? At a time when most SF was about cowboys in outer space, Dick explored the landscapes of the mind, conjured fake realities and was able to make you believe six impossible things before breakfast. He embodied the counter-culture a decade before the 1960's. Perhaps best known for Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - the novel which inspired Blade Runner - Dick's world is one where God speaks through cat food commercials and comes in a handy aerosol can. And where you might be a figment of someone else's imagination... As well as an introductory essay, this pocket sized volume from 2007 reviews and analyses each of Philip K Dick's novels and provides a listing of the many other books and articles which have grappled with this genius.

The Late Modernist Novel

Author	: Seo Hee Im
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2022-06-09
ISBN	: 100916838X
Pages	: 193 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Late Modernist Novel written by Seo Hee Im and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows how the late modernist novel incorporated empirical structures as theme and form to expand the genre beyond the nation-state.

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

Author	: Philip K. Dick
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2012-04-19
ISBN	: 0575132450
Pages	: 944 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Exegesis of Philip K Dick written by Philip K. Dick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Science Fiction Quotations

Author	: Gary Westfahl
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 2008-10-01
ISBN	: 0300127642
Pages	: 485 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction Quotations written by Gary Westfahl and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unprecedented collection of science fiction and fantasy quotations, the reader revisits the stunning moment when Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein monster first comes to life; witnesses the transformation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde; is present when Bruce Wayne resolves to become Batman; and overhears the cosmic conclusions of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Drawing upon two centuries of the vast and provocative literature of science fiction and fantasy, this comprehensive book presents more than 2,900 quotations from wide-ranging sources, including science fiction and fantasy stories, novels, films, and television programs. The quotations are organized by topic—alien worlds; darkness and light; robots, androids, and cyborgs; machines and technology; weapons; and more than one hundred others. The reader will encounter the wit and wisdom of renowned authors (H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin) along with definitive versions of such important statements as Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics and Star Trek’s Prime Directive. With its thorough index, this book is both an invaluable resource for the writer or scholar and an irresistible page-turner for the curious browser.

The Canadian Fantastic in Focus

Author	: Allan Weiss
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2014-11-28
ISBN	: 0786495928
Pages	: 254 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Fantastic in Focus written by Allan Weiss and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together papers presented at the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy from 2005 to 2013, this collection of essays includes Veronica Hollinger's keynote address, "The Body on the Slab," and Robert Runte's Aurora Award-winning paper, "Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction," along with 15 other contributions on science fiction and fantasy literature, television and music by Canadian creators. Authors discussed include Charles de Lint, Nalo Hopkinson, Tanya Huff, Esther Rochon, Peter Watts and Robert Charles Wilson. Essays on the television show Supernatural and the Scott Pilgrim comics series are also included.