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Philip Kindred D ick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works D ick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences in addressing the nature of drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS.
The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate history and science fiction, earning D ick a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, a novel about a celebrity who awakens in a parallel universe where he is unknown, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel in 1975. "I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," D ick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real."
Philip Kindred D ick and his twin sister, Jane Charlotte D ick, were born six weeks prematurely on December 16, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy Kindred D ick and Joseph Edgar D ick, who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture. The death of Jane, six weeks later on January 26, 1929, profoundly affected Philip's life, leading to the recurrent motif of the "phantom twin" in his books.
The family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. When Philip turned five, his father was transferred to Reno, Nevada. When Dorothy refused to move, she and Joseph divorced. Both parents fought for custody of Philip, which was awarded to the mother. Dorothy, determined to raise Philip alone, took a job in Washington, D.C., and moved there with her son. Philip was enrolled at John Eaton Elementary School (1936-38), completing the second through fourth grades. His lowest grade was a "C" in Written Composition, although a teacher remarked that he "shows interest and ability in story telling." He was educated in Quaker schools. In June 1938, Dorothy and Philip returned to California, and it was around this time that he became interested in science fiction. D ick states that, in 1940, at the age of twelve, he read his first science fiction magazine, "Stirring Science Stories".
D ick attended Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California. He and fellow science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin were members of the same graduating class (1947) but were unknown to each other at the time. After graduation, he briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley, (September 1949 to November 11, 1949) with an honorary dismissal granted January 1, 1950. D ick was an undeclared major and took classes in History, Psychology, Philosophy, and Zoology. Through his studies in Philosophy, he believed that existence is based on the internal-based perception of a human, which does not necessarily correspond to external reality; he described himself as an "acosmic panentheist," believing in the universe only as an extension of God.After reading the works of Plato and pondering the possibilities of metaphysical realms, D ick came to the conclusion that, in a certain sense, the world is not entirely real and there is no way to confirm whether it is truly there. This question from his early studies persisted as a theme in many of his novels. D ick dropped out, according to his third wife Anne in her memoir, because of his ongoing anxiety problems. Anne states that he did not like the mandatory ROTC training. At Berkeley, D ick befriended poet Robert Duncan and poet and linguist Jack Spicer, who gave D ick ideas for a Martian language. D ick claimed to have been host of a classical music program on KSMO Radio in 1947.
D ick sold his first story in 1951. From that point on he wrote full-time, selling his first novel in 1955. The 1950s were a difficult and impoverished time for D ick. He once said "We couldn't even pay the late fees on a library book." He published almost exclusively within the science fiction genre, but dreamed of a career in the mainstream of American literature. During the 1950s he produced a series of non-genre, relatively conventional novels. In 1960 he wrote that he was willing to "take twenty to thirty years to succeed as a literary writer." The dream of mainstream success formally died in January 1963 when the Scott Meredith Literary Agency returned all of his unsold mainstream novels. Only one of these works, Confessions of a Crap Artist, was published during D ick's lifetime.
In 1972, D ick donated manuscripts, papers and other materials to the Special Collections Library at California State University, Fullerton where they are archived in the Philip K. D ick Science Fiction Collection in the Pollak Library. It was in Fullerton that Philip K. D ick befriended budding science-fiction writers K. W. Jeter, James Blaylock, and Tim Powers. The last novel D ick wrote was The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. It was published shortly after his death in 1982.
About author and audiobooks:
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Novels
Philip K. D ick - Solar Lottery (read by Ray Charles)
Philip K. D ick - Mary And The Giant (read by Suzanne Toren)
Philip K. D ick - Eye In The Sky (read by Stephen Carpenter)
Philip K. D ick - The Broken Bubble
Philip K. D ick - Humpty Dumpty In Oakland
Philip K. D ick - The Man In The High Castle (read by George Guidall)
Philip K. D ick - Martian Time-Slip (read by Grover Gardner)
Philip K. D ick - Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After The Bomb (read by Tom Weiner)
Philip K. D ick - The Simulacra (read by Tom Weiner)
Philip K. D ick - Now Wait For Last Year (read by Luke Daniels)
Philip K. D ick - The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch (read by Tom Weiner)
Philip K. D ick - The Penultimate Truth (read by Jack Fox)
Philip K. D ick - Lies, Inc. or The Unteleported Man (read by Luke Daniels)
Philip K. D ick - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (read by Scott Brick)
Philip K. D ick - Ubik (read by Anthony Heald)
Philip K. D ick - Galactic Pot-Healer (read by Tom Parker)
Philip K. D ick - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (read by Scott Brick)
Philip K. D ick - A Scanner Darkl (read by Paul Giamatti)
Philip K. D ick - Radio Free Albemuth (read by Tom Weiner)
Philip K. D ick - VALIS (read by Tom Weiner)
Philip K. D ick - The Divine Invasion (read by D ick Hill)
Philip K. D ick - The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer (read by Joyce Bean)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/6cac3161b06149cfe8c9f396203fe95f/Mary_And_The_Giant.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/293b8a7c0734be5bd99be6f49b8e9933/Eye_In_The_Sky.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cd2c3ae79d980af496c4dbdf05811430/The_Broken_Bubble.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8b8503eedf640395cf7b6ed4a8398b12/Humpty_Dumpty_In_Oakland.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/603b3d6b6673c8d0277dcc8ace52624f/The_Man_In_The_High_Castle.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/db7f473c408deae537aa751ccdcf6a1e/Martian_Time_Slip.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/17b478f5c9d772fa5cf4bc39f5942cf4/Dr_Bloodmoney.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/68b9a5bcc9a42c0303474b6993529772/The_Simulacra.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cede13db08b79e96898d430c71b4d279/Now_Wait_For_Last_Year.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/24b0b39c160ae0c30f6f33ff9780c34b/The_Three_Stigmata_Of_Palmer_Eldritch.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/899871248298277545780e5afc26064e/The_Penultimate_Truth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/102c584e61b12a8e04e2e31170a37f49/Lies_Inc.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c57917bef0f62ce16f4f76353af1a002/Do_Androids_Dream_Of_Electric_Sheep.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0e57060e0c7d97abc73fc81e1a5cb524/Ubik.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a920e0796b836c975998a06ccfe98e1d/Galactic_Pot_Healer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d2c6f9caa0cb6c108bf0737a3048c528/Flow_My_Tears_The_Policeman_Said.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2161f03b3c15593907be587a9327fe27/A_Scanner_Darkl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/48c20c500bfaf9ecbfecb474617d0738/Radio_Free_Albemuth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f50edd39a7c7824f965570d1adf66e12/Valis.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/52bd195b91b4a0d75cf38e38e3a712a3/The_Divine_Invasion.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d1845fac0825ccdf2abea92531de23ef/The_Transmigration_Of_Timothy_Archer.rar.html |
Selected Stories
Philip K. D ick - Selected Stories (read by Various)
A Game of Unchance
A Little Something for Us Tempunauts
A Terran Odyssey
Adjustment Team
Autofac
Beyond Lies the Wub
Beyond the Door
Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked
Captive Market
Chains of Air, Web of Aether
Colony
Explorers We
Faith of Our Fathers
Foster, You're Dead
Holy Quarrel
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
If There Were No Benny Cemoli
Imposter
Not by Its Cover
Novelty Act
Oh, to Be a Blobel!
Orpheus with Clay Feet
Paycheck
Piper in the Woods
Precious Artifact
Progeny
Rautavaara's Case
Recall Mechanism
Retreat Syndrome
Return Match
Roog
Second Variety
Service Call
Stand-By
Strange Memories of Death
The Alien Mind
The Crystal Crypt
The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree
The Days of Perky Pat
The Defenders
The Electric Ant
The Exit Door Leads In
The Eye of the Sibyl
The Eyes Have It
The Gun
The King of the Elves
The Last of the Masters
The Little Black Box
The Minority Report
The Mold of Yancy
The Pre-Persons
The Preserving Machine
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
The Skull
The Unreconstructed M
The Variable Man
The War With the Fnools
Upon the Dull Earth
War Game
Waterspider
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
What the Dead Men Say
What'll We Do With Ragland Park
Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday
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http://rapidgator.net/file/475d3bd352985074b63824a2dd4636eb/Selected_Stories.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6e064f760d9440927ec5c532489229cb/Selected_Stories.part3.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/67641a75030d9032d1861f943e1bd047/Selected_Stories.part4.rar.html |
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