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Philip K. Dick


Cover art for HOW TO BUILD AN ANDROID
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE EXEGESIS OF PHILIP K. DICK
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for VOICES FROM THE STREET
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from the cyberpunk razzmatazz that earned Dick fame (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,1968, etc.), this heretofore unpublished 1953 novel is an apprentice work of social realism. Read full book review >
Cover art for SELECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK
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). Read full book review >
Cover art for THE SHIFTING REALITIES OF PHILIP K. DICK
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A selection of previously unpublished, or obscurely published, autobiographical sketches, SF musings, philosophical essays, speeches, and journal excerpts. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE BROKEN BUBBLE
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Like last year's Mary and the Giant, yet another haunting mainstream novel unpublished during Dick's lifetime. Read full book review >