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Anonymous
Posted April 5, 2004
His precog abilities were wasted on earth
Philip K. Dicks short stories are always hit or miss and this one is full of hits. It is unfortunate that few people know who this guy was, even now with 5 major movies to his name his goes almost unnoticed to the masses. If you like sci-fi and cool ideas read this!
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Anonymous
Posted April 21, 2011
Don't trust the BN website for the actual contents of this book.
Be warned... The table of contents that this website shows is NOT the contents of the book. For example, the story "The Adjustment Team" is not really in this printing. I found this out after I ordered the book, and had it in my grubby little hands. I was quite disappointed, since that particular short story is the reason I bought this book.
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Barnes and Noble says this is the publishers fault. Barnes and Noble should remove the description of the book if Barnes and Noble is not going to support it.
Note: If you just want a random assortment of Philip K Dick short stories and are not looking for a specific story, then this book is just fine. It's a good introduction to his work. :) -
A man and his obsessions
Philip K. Dick is one of the most recognizable names in Sci Fi, and this compilation of his short stories would be a good first exposure to his writings. The stories are, however, somewhat uneven in their quality, but this has been the characteristic of PKD in much of his oeuvre. The earlier ones seem rather amateurish, both in terms of the writing style and the ideas that they deal with, but the later longer ones are true gems of the genre. Among stories included here are 'The Minority Report', 'Paycheck' and 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale', all of which had been made into major Hollywood movies (The last one under the name 'Total Recall'), and one can imagine that it's only the matter of time before some of the other ones are adopted for the silver screen as well. It was interesting to see how the stories differed from their movie version, and to notice how things that capture our imagination have evolved from the time PKD wrote these stories. What really caught my eye is PKD's obsession with military establishment, and his seemingly constant fear of the military completely overtaking the civilian life. Those obsessions seem very far away form the contemporary readers, which is why they were completely downplayed in the movie adaptations of his works.
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