Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick - Softcover

Warrick, Patricia S.

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9780809311781: Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick

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ISBN 10: 080931178X ISBN 13: 9780809311781

Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1986

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What is human? What is a machine? How do they differ? Or do they?In these 15 stories about robots and androids, Philip K. Dick asks these questions. The answers differ with each story in the fictional world and in the exploring mind of Dick the only certainty is change but the author establishes some guidelines: To be human, one must maintain his intellectual and spiritual freedom at all costs. He must refuse obedience to any ideology; he must remain unpredictable, unfettered by patterns and routines. "

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Patricia Warrick is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Center, Fox Valley. Martin H. Greenberg is on the faculty of the College of Community Services at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay."

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