Human Is?: A Philip K. Dick Reader

Description

Drawn from the five volumes of his complete short stories (also published by Gollancz) this volume represents the very cream of Philip K. Dick's output. It serves both as a celebration of his work, in the 25th year since his death, and as the ideal introduction to his unique take on the world for new readers. As our culture becomes ever more fluid, as fact is fictionalised, as documentary gives way to reality-TV, as our identities are digitised, as globalism runs wild, as drugs become ever more ubiquitous the world is finally catching up with even the most bizarre of Philip K. Dick's imaginings. Twenty five years after his death we are living in Philip K. Dick's world, this new authoratitive collection of his best short fiction shows us why.

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Previous titles: The Zap Gun (Bfmt Sept 06); The Cosmic Puppets; Galactic Pot-Healer; A Maze of Death; Confessions of a Crap Artist; Mary and the Giant; In Milton Lumky Territory; The Penultimate Truth; Paycheck; The Simulacra; The World Jones Made; Time Out Of Joint; Solar Lottery; Eye In The Sky; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; Valis; Now Wait For Last Year; Three Early Novels; Dr Bloodmoney; We Can Remember It For You Wholesale; Minority Report; Ubik; A Scanner Dark