Volume I The King of the Elves, Philip K. Dick
Volume I The King of the Elves, Philip K. Dick
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Volume I: The King of the Elves

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 20 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/10/2016


Synopsis

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal world view, exploring the fragile, multifarious nature of reality itself and examining those elements that make us—or fail to make us—fully human. He did as much as anyone to demolish the artificial barrier between genre fiction and "literature," and the best of his work has earned a permanent place in American popular culture.The King of the Elves is the opening installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, expanded from the previous Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one previously unpublished, and one uncollected. This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas including Dick's first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," together with such landmark tales as "The Preserving Machine," in which an attempt to preserve our fragile cultural heritage takes an unexpected turn, The Variable Man, a brilliantly imagined novella encompassing war, time travel, and the varied uses of technology, and the title story, in which Shadrach Jones, owner of a dilapidated gas station in Colorado, stumbles into an ongoing war between trolls and elves, and encounters a fantastic—and utterly unexpected—destiny. Like the best of Dick's novels, these stories offer a wide variety of narrative and intellectual pleasures, and provide an ideal introduction to one of the singular imaginations of the modern era.

About Philip K. Dick

One of the greatest authors of the 20th century, with a career spanning 3 decades and 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film; notably: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. Dick won the Hugo Award in 1963 and was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2007 he was the first science fiction to be published by the Library of America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

This, the first a series of six volumes of Dick’s collected short fiction, covers the period between 1947 and 1953, encompassing his first (six-month) marriage, his even briefer college experiment at Berkeley, the beginning of his second (nine-year) marriage, his four years working at a Telegraph Hi......more

Goodreads review by Oscar

Estos son los primeros cuentos de Philip K. Dick que leo, y sólo puedo decir que estoy encantado. Me han parecido excepcionales. Escritos y publicados a principios de los 50 del pasado siglo, ya se pueden encontrar sus temáticas favoritas: viajes temporales, paranoia y conspiraciones. Me ha sorprend......more

-Introducción a los relatos de Philip K. Dick.- Género. Relatos. Lo que nos cuenta. Primer volumen recopilatorio de la producción breve del conocido autor, centrado en 25 relatos escritos entre 1947 y 1955, presentados en orden cronológico con un prefacio del propio autor extraído de una de sus carta......more