The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
Title | The Exegesis of Philip K Dick PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 1003 |
Release | 2011-11-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0547549253 |
"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius."-Jonathan Lethem 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.
The Philip K. Dick Reader
Title | The Philip K. Dick Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Citadel Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780806518565 |
Includes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next "More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." --The Wall Street Journal The Philip K. Dick Reader Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This collection includes some of Dick's earliest short and medium-length fiction, including We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), Second Variety (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), Paycheck, The Minority Report, and twenty more.
The Man in the High Castle
Title | The Man in the High Castle PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547572484 |
Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.
Ubik
Title | Ubik PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547572298 |
A mind-bending, classic Philip K. Dick novel about the perception of reality. Named as one of Time's 100 best books.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Title | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547572255 |
Altered reality, genetic enhancement and drugs combine to create one of the most popular and enduring science fiction novels from award-winning novelist Philip K. Dick.
The Valis Trilogy
Title | The Valis Trilogy PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 811 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547867735 |
This e-book only edition brings together the three novels of Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy. VALIS What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s groundbreaking novel, the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy, or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world. The Divine Invasion God is not dead, he has merely been exiled to an extraterrestrial planet. And it is on this planet that God meets Herb Asher and convinces him to help retake Earth from the demonic Belial. As the middlie novel of Dick's VALIS trilogy, The Divine Invasion plays a pivotal role in answering the questions raised by the first novel, expanding that world while exploring just how much anyone can really know -- even God himself. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer The final book in the VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer brings the author’s search for the identity and nature of God to a close. The novel follows Bishop Timothy Archer as he travels to Israel, ostensibly to examine ancient scrolls bearing the words of Christ. But, more importantly, this leads him to examine the decisions he made during his life and how they may have contributed to the suicide of his mistress and son.
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Title | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1328995062 |
Short stories originally published from 1953 to 1955.