Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Philip K. Dick
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Freedom, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Memory, Philosophy or philosophers, Science or scientists, Religion, Reality, Time travel, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Conspiracies or conspirators, Consciousness, Sacrifice, Dolls or dollhouses, Artificial intelligence, Fairy tales, Thought or thinking, Astronauts, Puzzles, Bomb shelters
The work of the late Philip K. Dick has long been held in high esteem by devoted readers of science fiction. In the years since his death in 1982, it has begun to attract attention in two other circles. Attracted by the philosophical puzzles that provided the bases for many of Dick’s plots, literary critics have compared his writings to those of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and Franz Kafka (1883-1924). At the same time, Dick’s uncanny imagination has served to provide plots for Hollywood. The films Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (1990), and Minority Report...
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