NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"A fascinating story unevenly told."
The story of the roboticists who created a fully functioning android replica of renowned writer Philip K. Dick.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 8, 2011
"Fascinating and unsettling. Still, at more than 900 pages, this will test the mettle--and the stamina--of even the most devoted of Dick fans."
A dyspeptic dystopian's mad secret notebooks, imposing order--at least of a kind--on a chaotic world.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 23, 2007
"An overwritten and too-long period piece that serves as a reminder of just how strange the '50s could be."
Far from the cyberpunk razzmatazz that earned Dick fame (
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,1968, etc.), this heretofore unpublished 1953 novel is an apprentice work of social realism.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 15, 2002
"These are not, for the most part, outstanding stories, but the worlds of this fevered imagination have become our luridly inescapable reality."
Twenty-one stories culled from Dick's (1928–82) considerable output; all have appeared in collections before, if only in the five-volume Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (1986).
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 24, 1995
"It's a satisfying picture, but Dick deserves more authoritative, less worshipful editing than he receives from Sutin."
A selection of previously unpublished, or obscurely published, autobiographical sketches, SF musings, philosophical essays, speeches, and journal excerpts.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 20, 1988
"Basically a love story, then—quirky, alternately hopeful and bleak, sad and funny, quintessentially Philip K. Dick—with a less successful stab at social issues like juvenile deliquency, teen-age pregnancy, and the like."
Like last year's Mary and the Giant, yet another haunting mainstream novel unpublished during Dick's lifetime.
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