I love the Man in the High Castle and just found this collection by the same author.
616 pages.
Inc £1 Amazon Tv/Video Credit (Thanks Miffyl)
Includes:
Second Variety
The Variable Man
Beyond Lies The Wub
The Eyes Have It
Mr Spaceship
Beyond The Door
The Skull
The Defenders
The Crystal Crypt
The Gun
Tony And The Beetles
Piper in the Woods
The Hanging Stranger
Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and essayist. His first short story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” was published shortly after his high school graduation. Some of his most famous short stories were adapted for film, including “The Minority Report,” “Second Variety” (adapted into the film Screamers) and “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” (adapted into the film Total Recall).
The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate history and science fiction, earning Dick a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963.Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, a novel about a celebrity who awakens one day to find that he is unknown, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel in 1975. "I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real."
In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime.Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, eleven popular films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, ****, Next, Screamers, The Adjustment Bureau and Impostor. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923.In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.
Was previously posted when on offer for Free via Amazon Kindle by Boz in 2015; their offers however don't last long.
I believe they're all public domain, which is why they're so cheap to publish.
maddogb
9 Jan 17#3
man was a genius.
batezy_1984
9 Jan 17#4
There are however 'quality issues' on that link according to Amazon hence the original post
horsepills
9 Jan 17#5
I really wanted to like his novels but struggled to get through even one (Ubik)...
pannan to horsepills
9 Jan 17#6
You probably chose the most difficult one to start with and the one that isn't that representative of his body of work.
miffyl
9 Jan 171#7
Don't forget, if you buy this:
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Rickardo
9 Jan 17#8
Which story and film has been asterisked in the OP - can't work it out and annoying me!
quidstretchy to Rickardo
9 Jan 17#9
Are you trying to say, in your own fashion, that you're constipated? It concerning me.
batezy_1984 to Rickardo
9 Jan 17#10
Don't really know what you mean but if you are after the Kindle Ed of the book that I was talking about it's here for £4.99 reduced from £8.99
He also wrote 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' retitled 'Blade Runner'
crazylegs to Shahie
9 Jan 17#12
We already know that and it's already been stated by the OP
Nick66
9 Jan 17#13
They are all great and I have them in proper (book) form already of course. Second Variety should ring a few bells with SF fans...lets just say that certain directors read this one....
Pixelfill
9 Jan 171#14
Blade runner is stated in the OP but not that it was based on Do Android's dream of electric sheep.
Rickardo
9 Jan 17#15
Ironically, I was sat on the toilet when I posted that!
Rickardo
9 Jan 17#16
In the OP description, one of the tiles is asterisked:
...eleven popular films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, ****, Next, Screamers, The Adjustment Bureau and Impostor.
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Opening post
616 pages.
Inc £1 Amazon Tv/Video Credit (Thanks Miffyl)
Includes:
Second Variety
The Variable Man
Beyond Lies The Wub
The Eyes Have It
Mr Spaceship
Beyond The Door
The Skull
The Defenders
The Crystal Crypt
The Gun
Tony And The Beetles
Piper in the Woods
The Hanging Stranger
Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and essayist. His first short story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” was published shortly after his high school graduation. Some of his most famous short stories were adapted for film, including “The Minority Report,” “Second Variety” (adapted into the film Screamers) and “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” (adapted into the film Total Recall).
The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate history and science fiction, earning Dick a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963.Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, a novel about a celebrity who awakens one day to find that he is unknown, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel in 1975. "I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards," Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real."
In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime.Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, eleven popular films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, ****, Next, Screamers, The Adjustment Bureau and Impostor. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923.In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.
Was previously posted when on offer for Free via Amazon Kindle by Boz in 2015; their offers however don't last long.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/freebies/from-author-man-high-castle-blade-runner-total-recall-philip-k-dick-13-short-stories-2364386
Btw all... Season 3 has been confirmed!
http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/man-high-castle-gets-season-3-renewal-amazon/
If you are after the Kindle Ed of the The Man in the High Castle it's here for £4.99 reduced from £8.99
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008DM2MGW/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_IW0CybG6WRAM0
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philip-K-Dick-MEGAPACK-Classic-ebook/dp/B00C6EXNRA
I believe they're all public domain, which is why they're so cheap to publish.
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...eleven popular films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, ****, Next, Screamers, The Adjustment Bureau and Impostor.