The Philip K. Dick Reader
Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This collection includes some of Dick's earliest short and medium-length fiction, including "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), "Second Variety" (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), "Paychecks", "The Minority Report", and 21 more.
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- Only 9 books this year, https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/40352124-mike?shelf=re...
Highlights are:
* Networks of New York by Ingrid Burrington - A fascinating look at the communications infrastructure in NYC, written as a field guide. Inspired me to make a website in the same style for Philadelphia.
* Kitten Clone: The History of the Future at Bell Labs by Douglas Coupland - This is my first non-fiction Coupland book and it was nice to see his punchy writing translate to the topic. The chapter where he goes to the old facility in New Jersey is fantastic. There is a shorter, edited version of this part online, https://www.wired.com/2014/09/coupland-bell-labs/
* The Philip K. Dick Reader - My second time reading any Dick, this collection is amazing, lengthy, and inexpensive to pick up. You'll be up all night reading this and surprised how sci-fi from the '50s is so relevant today.
Perhaps, but PKD's short stories are EXTREMELY easy reads! They have been collected in various forms over the years, and I can't think of a single thing on my bookshelf that's more of a blast to re-read once in a while.Unlike Stephen King, Dick's books aren't very easy to read from cover to cover,Here's the collection I have. There are others; this is just the one I've got:
- Gosh, there's so many. But these come to mind:
1. Neuromancer - William Gibson
2. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
3. Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy
4. How to Measure Anything - Douglas Hubbard
5. Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
6. The Pragmatic Programmer - Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
7. The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
8. Code - Charles Petzold
9. The Shockwave Rider - John Brunner
10. Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become Book - Peter Morville
11. Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug
12. The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman
13. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering - Fred Brooks
14. Decline and Fall of the American Programmer - Ed Yourdon
15. Cube Farm - Bill Blunden
16. The Philip K. Dick Reader
17. The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll
18. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
19. The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
20. The Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross
21. Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System - Bill Gates
