Five Great Novels

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Five Great Novels
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Philip K Dick
SeriesGollancz S.F.
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:848
Dimensions(mm): Height 232,Width 154
Category/GenreScience fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780575084636
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Gollancz
Publication Date 25 September 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as Bladerunner), MARTIAN TIME SLIP, UBIK, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and A SCANNER DARKLY. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick's unique imagination. In Dick's writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world's order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. Films such as The Matrix and The Truman Show would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.

Author Biography

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.