The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick Dover Books on Literature Drama Pre-Owned Paperback 048649733X 9780486497334 Philip K. Dick

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This is a Pre-Owned book. All our books are in Good or better condition. Format: Paperback Author: Philip K. Dick ISBN10: 048649733X ISBN13: 9780486497334 The highly prolific writer Philip K. Dick 1928-82 ranks among the most influential of science fiction authors. The Hugo Award winner published 44 novels and more than 120 brief works during his lifetime and his fantasies formed as the basis for Blade Runner Total Recall Minority Report The Adjustment Bureau and other successful motion pictures. This anthology presents twelve of his finest early short stories and novellas which originally appeared in Space Science Fiction Imagination: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy and other pulp magazines of the early 1950s. These gripping stories include Second Variety which stars nasty little death-robots; The Crystal Crypt an account of a terrifying flight to Mars; The Defenders featuring a self-aware weapon frightful enough to put an end to war; and The Variable Man a tale of a handymans misadventures in the future. Additional selections include Beyond the Door the story of the lonely bird inside a cuckoo clock; Mr. Spaceship a fable concerning spacecraft controlled by the human brain; and Beyond Lies the Wub in which intelligence lurks in an unlikely form.