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Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s

The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric S…

By Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem (Editor)

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| Hardcover | 9781598530094

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Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick (1928-82) is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem's words, "wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes himContinue

Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick (1928-82) is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem's words, "wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him." Posing the questions "What is human?" and "What is real?" in a multitude of fascinating ways, Dick produced works-fantastic and weird yet developed with precise logic, marked by wild humor and soaring flights of religious speculation-that are startlingly prescient imaginative responses to 21st-century quandaries.

This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), about a bounty hunter in search of escaped androids in a postapocalyptic future, was the basis for the movie Blade Runner. Ubik (1969), with its future world of psychic espionage agents and cryogenically frozen patients inhabiting an illusory "half-life," pursues Dick's theme of simulated realities and false perceptions to ever more disturbing conclusions. As with most of Dick's novels, no plot summary can suggest the mesmerizing and constantly surprising texture of these astonishing books.

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  • Very gripping ideas and plots. Dick’s spirituality is very present throughout all novels.
    However, “The Man in the High Castle” and “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch” look like unfinished novels. It seems that they stop when the action is about to start. Curiously, about “The Three Stigmata of ... (continue)

    Very gripping ideas and plots. Dick’s spirituality is very present throughout all novels.
    However, “The Man in the High Castle” and “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch” look like unfinished novels. It seems that they stop when the action is about to start. Curiously, about “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch” Dick said: “I not only cannot understand the novel, I can’t even read it”.
    “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” is really good, but (I cannot believe I’m actually saying this) I prefer the movie adaptation: Blade Runner.
    “Ubik” was a very pleasant surprise. I love this novel and its twists. Great, really great.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 900 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1598530097
  • ISBN-13: 9781598530094
  • Publisher: Library of America
  • Pub date: May 10, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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