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| Name: |
Philip K. Dick | | Birth Date: |
December 16, 1928 | | Death Date: |
March 2, 1982 | | Place of Birth: |
Chicago, Illinois | | Place of Death: |
Santa Ana, California | | Gender: |
Male |
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Biography of Philip K(indred) Dick
4259 words, approx. 14.2 pages
 From Philip K. Dick's first sale of a story entitled "Roog" to Anthony Boucher of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1952 and his first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub" in Planet Stories in the same year (both collected in The Best of P...
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Biography of Philip K. Dick
2578 words, approx. 8.6 pages
 The fictional worlds of Philip K. Dick are populated by strange creatures and situations: men with enormous steel teeth, private detectives who own electric animals, self-governing insane asylums. It is from these bizarre places that Dick allows himself...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Martian Time-Slip Information
2,501 words, approx. 8 pages
 Martian Time-Slip is a 1964 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The novel utilizes 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...



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 The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Partial To This Martian
02/12/1999: 676 words, approx. 2 pages ROGER EBERT The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 02-12-1999 PARTIAL TO THIS MARTIAN -- CREATURE FROM A SIXTIES SITCOM By ROGER EBERT Date: 02-12-1999, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- 2 Star B, 2 Star P, 1 Star Early MOVIE...
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 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Martian madness
03/10/2000: 2,489 words, approx. 8 pages Martian madness Our fascination with the Red Planet is simply out of this world By JACKIE LOOHAUIS of the Journal Sentinel staff Friday, March 10, 2000 "Ladies and gentlemen. I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Brian W. Aldiss
1,398 words, approx. 5 pages
 [The following excerpt was published in a special issue of Science-Fiction Studies devoted to the work of Philip K. Dick.] The setting [of Martian Time-Slip] is Mars, which is now partly colonised. (p. 42)
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Critical Essay by J. G. Ballard
96 words, approx. 1 pages
 Martian Time-Slip … describes a desolate, end-of-the-century Mars inhabited by doomed clairvoyants, an obsessed tycoon and an autistic child-hero who together move through a landscape that uncannily resembles southern California perceived through the glaze of some deep psychosis…. [The] novel is full of incident, fusing terror and comedy in a unique way. More than any other SF writer, Dick is able to convey the sense of everyday reality as totally threatening. (p. 879) J. G. Balla...


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