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Sto caricando le informazioni... Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams [collection]di Philip K. Dick
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I didn’t love all these stories but The Father-Thing, The Hanging Stranger, Sales Pitch, and Foster, You’re Dead were exceptional. Very, very good. ( ) Overall solid collection of sci-fi short stories, all originally published in the 1950s. Despite the age, I thought that several of the stories were quite relevant to the 2020s. Some stories I enjoyed more than others, but that is common in a short story collection. My favorites were "The Hanging Stranger" and "The Father-Thing" - both were very exciting. It's been a while since I've read PKD, & this makes me want to read more. This collection of short stories takes me back to the days of Twilight Zone and the years before I had heard of Philip K. Dick. I would have enjoyed reading these stories back then, but some of the shock value of his twisted endings has dissipated because these ideas have been copied so often. And they do not really represent the PKD that I love. It takes a longer format for him to drag you outside of reality and keep you there. Reading this collection after becoming a PKD fan, is looking into his worlds from a totally different perspective. I see traces of his humor, shadows of his psychological angst, wisps of Bradbury’s nostalgic descriptions of a world that is long gone. It felt like examining the youthful photograph of a friend you have grown old with. I wonder what they will do to these stories in the TV series. This compilation of Philip K. Dick's short stories, all written in the early to mid-1950s in the midst of the Cold War. Each story includes a foreword by an individual involved in the story's translation to film for the Twilight Zone series, Electric Dreams. The anthology begins strong with the short story, "Exhibit Piece," about a museum curator who bends the time-space continuum to live in the world of one of his exhibits on 1950s America. Another early story, "The Hanging Stranger", was reminiscent of Jack Finney's Body Snatchers. Although I loved the earlier short stories, I found much of the remainder to be plodders; I was only reading words to finish the story hoping that the next one would be better than the latter only to be disappointed. I am interested in seeing how these stories are translated for a contemporary audience. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In "Autofac," Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. "Exhibit Piece" and "The Commuter" feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists. And "The Hanging Stranger" provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dickwrote it at the height of the Cold War. Strange, funny, and powerful, the stories in this collection highlight a master at work, encapsulating his boundless imagination and deep understanding of the human condition. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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