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Martian Time-Slip is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.The novel uses the common science fiction concept of a human colony on Mars.However, it also includes the themes of mental illness, the physics of time and the dangers of centralized authority.
The Philip K. Dick estate owns and operates the production company Electric Shepherd Productions, [141] which has produced the film The Adjustment Bureau (2011), the TV series The Man in the High Castle [142] and also a Marvel Comics 5-issue adaptation of Electric Ant. [143] The Hanson Robotics Philip K. Dick Android, at the 2019 Web Summit event
Dick was living in the East Bay when the 22nd World Science Fiction Convention came to Oakland in 1964. He attended, giving rise to many rumors and legends about his life. Biographer Brian J. Robb notes that "Dick's reputation as a mad, drug-fueled SF prophet emerged almost fully formed from the 1964 WorldCon, and persisted beyond his death."
A Scanner Darkly is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, published in 1977.The semi-autobiographical story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California, in the then-future of June 1994, and includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use (both recreational and abusive).
O'Hagan wrote that the book "appears almost novelistic" because of its focus on Dick's inner life and richness in anecdotes, and that Carrère seems to want to present Dick's life as Dick himself experienced it, calling the book an "intriguing read" and "as good a place as any to start trying to understand the enigma of Philip K Dick". [1]
Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s: Martian Time Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly ISBN 978-1-59853-025-4 2009 Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels: A Maze of Death/VALIS/The Divine Invasion/The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ISBN 978-1-59853-044-5
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon is a book by American writer Philip K. Dick, a collection of 10 science fiction short stories and one essay. It was first published by Doubleday in 1985 and was edited by Mark Hurst and Paul Williams .
What the Dead Men Say is a science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Worlds of Tomorrow magazine in June 1964. [1] The manuscript, originally titled "Man With a Broken Match", [2] was received by Dick's agent on 15 April 1963.