The Cosmic Puppets

The Cosmic Puppets
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547572387

A fantastical, fast-paced science fiction novel of mystery and action from award-winning novelist Philip K. Dick.

The Cosmic Puppets

The Cosmic Puppets
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547724888

A man’s hometown is drastically changed—and no one knows what he’s talking about—in this science fiction novel from the author of The Zap Gun. Following an inexplicable urge, Ted Barton returns to his idyllic Virginia hometown for a vacation, but when he gets there, he is shocked to discover that the town has utterly changed. The stores and houses are all different and he doesn’t recognize anybody. The mystery deepens when he checks the town’s historical records…and reads that he died nearly twenty years earlier. As he attempts to uncover the secrets of the town, Barton is drawn deeper into the puzzle, and into a supernatural battle that could decide the fate of the universe.

Understanding Philip K. Dick

Understanding Philip K. Dick
Author: Eric Carl Link
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1643363468

A guide to the fantastic world of a science fiction legend Author of more than forty novels and myriad short stories over a three-decade literary career, Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) single-handedly reshaped twentieth-century science fiction. His influence has only increased since his death with the release of numerous feature films and television series based on his work, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The Man in the High Castle. In Understanding Philip K. Dick, Eric Carl Link introduces readers to the life, career, and work of this groundbreaking, prolific, and immeasurably influential force in American literature, media culture, and contemporary science fiction. Dick was at times a postmodernist, a mainstream writer, a pulp fiction writer, and often all three simultaneously, but as Link illustrates, he was more than anything else a novelist of ideas. From this vantage point, Link surveys Dick's tragicomic biography, his craft and career, and the recurrent ideas and themes that give shape and significance to his fiction. Link finds across Dick's writing career an intellectual curiosity that transformed his science fiction novels from bizarre pulp extravaganzas into philosophically challenging explorations of the nature of reality, and it is this depth of vision that continues to garner new audiences and fresh approaches to Dick's genre-defining tales.

The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick

The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Author: Umberto Rossi
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786486295

Philip K. Dick was one of the most popular science fiction novelists of the 20th century, but the contradictory and wily writer has troubled critics who attempt encompassing explanations of his work. This book examines Dick's writing through the lens of ontological uncertainty, providing a comparative map of his oeuvre, tracing both the interior connections between books and his allusive intertextuality. Topics covered include time travel, alternate worlds, androids and simulacra, finite subjective realities and schizophrenia. Twenty novels are explored in detail, including titles that have received scant critical attention. Some of his most important short stories and two of his realist novels are also examined, providing a general introduction to Dick's body of work.

Modern Gothic

Modern Gothic
Author: Victor Sage
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719042089

This lively collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated, the fantastic - in a spectrum of popular and 'high cultural' forms of representation.

Pink Beam

Pink Beam
Author: Lord Rc
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1430324376

A study of the novels and short stories of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)with presentation of a literary chronology of his career.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1
Author: R. Reginald
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0941028755

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick
Author: Lejla Kucukalic
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010-12-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1135896658

Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows that the author is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into contemporary digital culture

I Think I Am

I Think I Am
Author: Laurence A. Rickels
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0816666652

"Aside from its perfect fit of critic and subject, Laurence A. Rickels's book provides the most thorough and exhaustive reading of Philip K. Dick's literary work that exists. He goes through all the novels literally, both the science fiction works and the so-called mainstream novels Dick did not publish in his lifetime. The reader of science fiction should welcome a book like this, which is both knowledgeable of the SF tradition tradition and creatively analytical. I could not put this book down once I began to read it".---George Slusser, University of California, Riverside --