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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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: Jan. 21, 1976
"Flawed, almost too grim to take, but stunningly realized."
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,1968, etc.), this heretofore unpublished 1953 novel is an apprentice work of social realism.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: May 28, 1982
"Pike's mysterious career should find this a quietly stimulating, if thoroughly depressing, reconstruction."
Dick's death a little over a week ago may mean that this will be his last published novel; and, ironically, it is the one in which he most completely abandons sciencefiction for mainstream theological writing.
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