The Best of Philip K. Dick
Jan 2019 · Echo Point+ORM
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Thirteen short stories by the legendary author of The Man in the High Castle and other science fiction classics.
Philip K. Dick didn't predict the future―he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn't predict the Internet or iPhones or email or 3D printers, but rather he so thoroughly understood human nature that he could already see, even at the advent of the transistor, the way technology would alienate us from each other and from ourselves. He could see us isolated and drifting in our own private realities even before we had plugged in our ear buds. He could see, even in the earliest days of space exploration, how much of our own existence remained unexplored, and how the great black spaces between people were growing even as our universe was shrinking.
Philip K. Dick spent his first three years as a science fiction author writing shorter fiction, and in his lifetime he composed almost 150 short stories, many of which have gone on to be adapted into (slightly watered down) Hollywood blockbusters. Collected here are thirteen of his most Dickian tales, funhouse realities with trap doors and hidden compartments.
Philip K. Dick didn't predict the future―he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn't predict the Internet or iPhones or email or 3D printers, but rather he so thoroughly understood human nature that he could already see, even at the advent of the transistor, the way technology would alienate us from each other and from ourselves. He could see us isolated and drifting in our own private realities even before we had plugged in our ear buds. He could see, even in the earliest days of space exploration, how much of our own existence remained unexplored, and how the great black spaces between people were growing even as our universe was shrinking.
Philip K. Dick spent his first three years as a science fiction author writing shorter fiction, and in his lifetime he composed almost 150 short stories, many of which have gone on to be adapted into (slightly watered down) Hollywood blockbusters. Collected here are thirteen of his most Dickian tales, funhouse realities with trap doors and hidden compartments.
Thirteen short stories by the legendary author of The Man in the High Castle and other science fiction classics.
Philip K. Dick didn't predict the future―he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn't predict the Internet or iPhones or email o...
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Hazel
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June 28, 2022
Dud formatting. Impossible to read on a phone as when you increase the text enough to be able to read the writing no longer fits the screen. Glad I tried the sample first otherwise I'd be even more annoyed
Karl Hansen (a2brute)
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July 7, 2022
I checked the sample, and the Google Books app gives plenty of adjustment controls for the text. I saw no real formatting issues, and I bought the book. Scroll past the initial quote, which has some wide margins.
Audrey McSweeney
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June 28, 2022
May be good but can't read it on a phone. Format is dud. If you enlarge the text enough to read it doesn't fit on the screen!!
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