Vintage PKDA master of science fiction, a voice of the changing counterculture, and a genuine visionary, Philip K. Dick wrote about reality, entropy, deception, and the plight of being alive in the modern world. Through his remarkable career Dick has established himself as a writer of the first order and his dreams of the future have proven to be eerily prophetic and even more prescient than when he wrote them. Vintage PKD features extracts from The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, VALIS, and stories including “The Days of Perky Pat,” “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts," and “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,” along with essays and letters currently unavailable in book form. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions. |
Contents
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THE DAYS OF PERKY | 28 |
Selection from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | 56 |
Selection from Ubik | 68 |
A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR US TEMPUNAUTS | 84 |
Selection from A Scanner Darkly | 108 |
THE LUCKY DOG PET STORE | 123 |
HOPE I SHALL ARRIVE SOON | 136 |
THE ZEBRA PAPERS | 156 |
Selection from VALIS | 168 |
Common terms and phrases
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