Volume V We Can Remember It for You ..., Philip K. Dick
Volume V We Can Remember It for You ..., Philip K. Dick
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Volume V: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: David de Vries, Joyce Bean

Unabridged: 18 hr 24 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 Ubik 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.We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is the final installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. This expansive collection contains 27 stories and novellas written between 1963 and 1981, years in which Dick produced some of his most mature work, including such novels as Ubik, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, and A Scanner Darkly. Among the many pleasures included here are the classic title story (filmed twice as Total Recall), in which an ordinary clerk, awash in resurrected memories, discovers the truth about his past and about the astonishing role he has played in human history; the Hugo-nominated "Faith of Our Fathers," with its bleak and controversial vision of a predatory deity; and "The Electric Ant," a brilliant embodiment of a classic Dick theme: the elusive—and changeable—nature of what we believe to be "real." Like its predecessors, this generous volume offers wit, ingenuity, and intellectual excitement on virtually every page. The best of these stories, like the best of Dick's novels, are richly imagined, deeply personal visions that no one else could have written. They're going to be around for a very long time to come.

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 Susan

I’ve been reading Dick’s novels in chronological order and I’m almost finished with the 1950s. But I needed a break from novels so I switched over to short stories. I decided to start with The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Classic Stories, the last of the five volumes of Dick’s collected short stories.......more

Goodreads review by Baba

The final book in the almost complete collection of Dick's short stories; this volume contains 24 shorts of varying lengths with original publication dates spanning the period of his peak from 1963 to 1981. I must admit that there are some awfully banal stories here, but there are also some very goo......more

Goodreads review by Manny

The title story is SO much better than Total Recall.......more