The Philip K. Dick Reader [Paperback]

Includes the stories that inspired the moviesTotal Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, andNext

“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 forThe Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novelDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

This collection includes some of Dick’s earliest short and medium-length fiction, includingWe Can Remember It for You Wholesale(the story that inspired the motion pictureTotal Recall),Second Variety(which inspired the motion pictureScreamers),Paycheck, The Minority Report, and twenty more.

“Philip K. Dick is awe-inspiring.”
—The Washington Post

“More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people’s minds.”
—The Wall Street JournalMore than 30 years after his untimely death at age 53,Philip K. Dick(1928 – 1982) remains one of the most celebrated authors of the last century and a looming and illuminating presence in this one. He was the winner of both the prestigious Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, which honor excellence in science fiction. Inducted in 2007 into the Library of America, which publishes a three-vlÖ