Father-Thing, The (Collected Short Stories Of Philip K. Dick)
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Tellimisel
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9781857988819
Description:
THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as 'Foster, You're Dead' a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and 'The Golden Man', a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.
THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as 'Foster, You're Dead' a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and 'The Golden Man', a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.
Description:
THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as 'Foster, You're Dead' a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and 'The Golden Man', a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.
Author Biography:
SALES POINTS * ' A fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form the expression of his ideas' The Independent * ' One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction. Philip K. Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem naval gazers in a cul-de-sac' Sunday Times * ' A stunning composite portrait of our times' The Observer * ' The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world ( author of more good short stories than I can count' John Brunner
THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as 'Foster, You're Dead' a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and 'The Golden Man', a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.
Author Biography:
SALES POINTS * ' A fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form the expression of his ideas' The Independent * ' One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction. Philip K. Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem naval gazers in a cul-de-sac' Sunday Times * ' A stunning composite portrait of our times' The Observer * ' The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world ( author of more good short stories than I can count' John Brunner
| Autor | Dick, Philip K. |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 1999 |
| Kirjastus | Orion Publishing Co (Group) |
| Köide | Pehmekaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 400 |
| Pikkus | 198 |
| Laius | 198 |
| Keel | English |
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