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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings
Contributor(s): Dick, Philip K. (Author), Sutin, Lawrence (Editor)
ISBN: 0679747877     ISBN-13: 9780679747871
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1996
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Fiction | Science Fiction - General
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.22" W x 8" (0.63 lbs) 384 pages
 
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"What Kafka was to the first half of the twentieth century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half."--Art Spiegelman, author of MAUS

Philip K. Dick was both our most brilliant science fiction writer and a visionary philosopher who chose to couch his speculations in fiction. For, as he wrote about androids and virtual reality, schizophrenic prophets and amnesiac gods, Dick was also posing fundamental questions: What is reality? What is sanity? And what is human? This unprecedented collection of Dick's literary and philosophical writings acquaints us with the astonishing range and eloquence of his lifelong inquiry.

The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick includes autobiography, critiques of science fiction, and dizzyingly provocative essays such as "The Android and the Human" and "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others." Readers will also find two chapters of a proposed sequel to Dick's award-winning novel The Man in the High Castle and selections from the metaphysical Exegesis that inspired his classic VALIS.

Witty, erudite, and exploding with intellectual shrapnel, this is the last testament of an American original. This collection confirms Dick's reputation as one of the foremost imaginative thinkers of the twentieth century.

"A wide-ranging selection of free-wheeling philosophical essays, and journal entries; humorous, thoughtful speeches; and plot scenarios. . . . For both casual and serious Dick fans, The Shifting Realities unearths some gems."--Boston Phoenix