Includes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall,
Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next
"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside
people's minds." --The Wall Street Journal
The Philip K. Dick Reader
Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science
fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest
in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been
further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K.
Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science
fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and
promulgation of his works.
Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The
Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade
Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
This collection includes some of Dick's earliest short and medium-length
fiction, including We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (the story
that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), Second Variety
(which inspired the motion picture Screamers), Paycheck, The Minority
Report, and twenty more.
