Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

About this book

From the iconic author of  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, stories that inspired the original dramatic series.

Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works.  Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In "Autofac," Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. "Exhibit Piece" and "The Commuter" feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists. And "The Hanging Stranger" provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dick wrote it at the height of the Cold War. Strange, funny, and powerful, the stories in this collection highlight a master at work, encapsulating his boundless imagination and deep understanding of the human condition.

Praise for Philip K. Dick

"In his top form, Philip K. Dick rivals Kurt Vonnegut."— New York Times

"Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage."—Roberto Bolaño

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Introduction by Ronald D. Moore
  5. Exhibit Piece
  6. Introduction by Jack Thorne
  7. The Commuter
  8. Introduction by David Farr
  9. The Impossible Planet
  10. Introduction by Dee Rees
  11. The Hanging Stranger
  12. Introduction by Tony Grisoni
  13. Sales Pitch
  14. Introduction by Michael Dinner
  15. The Father-Thing
  16. Introduction by Matthew Graham
  17. The Hood Maker
  18. Introduction by Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell
  19. Foster, You’re Dead
  20. Introduction by Jessica Mecklenburg
  21. Human Is
  22. Introduction by Travis Beacham
  23. Autofac
  24. Read More from Philip K. Dick
  25. About the Author
  26. Connect with HMH