Volume V: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale Audiobook (Free)
- Joyce Bean, David De Vries
- 19 h 0 min
- Brilliance Audio
- 2016-05-10
Summary:
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was among the seminal numbers of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, such as such classics as Ubik and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal world view, exploring the delicate, multifarious character of actuality itself and evaluating those elements that make us—or neglect to make us—completely human. He do just as much as anyone to demolish the artificial barrier between genre fiction and ‘books,’ and the very best of his function has about Volume V: WE ARE ABLE TO Remember It for You Wholesale earned a permanent place in American popular culture.We Can Remember It for You Wholesale may be the final installment of the uniform, five-volume release of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. This expansive collection includes 27 stories and novellas written between 1963 and 1981, years in which Dick produced a few of his most mature function, including such novels as Ubik, Circulation My Tears, the Policeman Stated, and A Scanner Darkly. Among the many pleasures included here are the traditional title tale (filmed doubly Total Recall), in which a typical clerk, awash in resurrected remembrances, discovers the reality about his history and about the astonishing role he has played in history; the Hugo-nominated ‘Beliefs of Our Fathers,’ with its bleak and controversial vision of the predatory deity; and ‘The Electric powered Ant,’ an excellent embodiment of the classic Dick theme: the elusive—and changeable—nature of what we should believe to be ‘true.’ Like its predecessors, this generous volume presents wit, ingenuity, and intellectual exhilaration on virtually every page. The best of these tales, like the greatest of Dick’s novels, are richly imagined, deeply personal visions that no-one else could possess written. They’re going to be around for a very long time to come.
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