Adjustment Team: 2 (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick)

Dick, Philip K.

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9781455814718: Adjustment Team: 2 (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick)

ISBN 10: 1455814717 ISBN 13: 9781455814718

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2015

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as "The Man in the High Castle" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," reflect a deeply personal world view, exploring the fragile, multifarious nature of reality itself and examining those elements that make us or fail to make us fully human. He did as much as anyone to demolish the artificial barrier between genre fiction and "literature," and the best of his work has earned a permanent place in American popular culture. "Adjustment Team" is the second installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. This wide-ranging collection contains 26 stories and novellas from the extraordinarily productive years of 1952 and 1953, along with extensive story notes. Included here are "The Cookie Lady," an account of a young boy whose relationship with a lonely widow results in a bizarre act of transformation, "Second Variety" (filmed in 1995 as "Screamers"), a novella that powerfully evokes a post-apocalyptic society overrun by all-too-human looking robots known as "Claws," and the title story, in which a small accident of timing leads real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to an unexpected confrontation with the malleable nature of a once familiar world. Like its predecessor, "The King of the Elves," this new volume offers both an astonishing variety of narrative pleasures and a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of a major American artist."

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This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1954 and is republished here with a brand new introductory biography. "Adjustment Team" is a short story that was eventually adapted into the filmThe Adjustment Bureau in 2011.

Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. Dick and his family moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco when he was young, and later on to Washington DC following his parents divorce. Dick attended Elementary school and then a Quaker school before the family moved back to California. It was around this time that Dick began to take an active interest in the science fiction genre, reading his first magazineStirring Science Stories, at age twelve. Dick married five times between 1959 and 1973, and had three children. He sold his first story in 1951 and from that point on he wrote full-time, selling his first novel in 1955. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. After his death, many of his stories made the transition to the big screen, with blockbuster films such asBlade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report being based on his works.

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