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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: |
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 Biography of Philip K(indred) Dick
4,259 words, approx. 14 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... summary from source:
 Biography of Philip K. Dick
2,578 words, approx. 9 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... 
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 Philip K. Dick Quotes
4,460 words, approx. 15 pages
 Philip Kindred Dick ( 16 December 1928 - 2 March 1982 ) was an American science fiction writer. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Man Who Japed (1956) 1.2 The World Jones Made (1956) 1.3 The Man in the High Castle (1962) 1.4 Martian Time-Slip (1964) 1.5 Do...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Dick, Philip K. (1928-1982) Summary
740 words, approx. 3 pagesAuthor of 26 novels and 112 short stories, Philip K. Dick started his career as a science fiction writer in 1952. He was awarded the Hugo Award, a presentation made by fans, for his novel The Man in the High Castle in 1962, but he had to wait until the... summary from source:
 Philip K. Dick Information
6,732 words, approx. 22 pages
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16 1928 – March 2 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer who foreshadowed the cyberpunk sub-genre and brought the anomic world of California to his works. Dick also explored sociological and...
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 Extrapolation Masculinity in the novels of Philip K. Dick.
06/22/2006: 7,584 words, approx. 25 pages The quintessential Dick character is the paradigm of masculine subjectivity in crisis: he is uncertain in his job, his interpersonal relationships, and in his own sense of himself. Carl Freedman has noted that Dick's "stature [as the greatest of all science fiction authors]... summary from source:
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Post-mortem, Philip K. Dick gets his due
06/23/2002: 700 words, approx. 2 pages 00-00-0000 Post-mortem, Philip K. Dick gets his due -- Author's thrillers tailored for film By BOBBY BRYANT, KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS Date: 06-23-2002, Sunday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday Biographical: PHILIP K. DICK Twenty years after dying, science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick is... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Cultural Substance Abuse And Other Perils of Youth
3/20/2005: 1,226 words, approx. 4 pagesThe Disappointment Artist, by Jonathan Lethem. Doubleday, 149 pages, $22.95. In the summer of 1977, Jonathan Lethem saw the movie Star Wars 21 times. Not that many times, really-if anything, in the annals of Star Wars geekdom, it qualifies as merely a good start-but... summary from source:
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2/25/2007: 1,106 words, approx. 4 pagesWhen Toyota Motor Corp. wanted to promote its new Scions to young buyers, it turned to one of the growing number of digital design companies doing business in the popular online universe "Second Life."The firm, Millions of Us, conjured up Scion City _ a futuristic...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Neil Easterbrook
10,287 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Easterbrook cites the story “Impostor” as forming “several of Dick's paradigmatic gestures and traces a problem increasingly important to poststructural thought: that of the double and its emblematic representation of alterity.”
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Critical Essay by Patricia S. Warrick
10,075 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Warrick investigates “what is truly human and what only masquerades as human,” as suggested by the work of Dick.
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Critical Essay by Christopher Palmer
9,762 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Palmer regards Dick as an author “who mixes parable and fantasy with licentious impurity,” resulting in a reflection on morality and the question of humanness.
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