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Dick, Philip K.

ISBN 10: 1433228165 ISBN 13: 9781433228162

Verlag: Blackstone Pub, 2012

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Glen Runciter, head of an anti-telepathic security agency, has been killed. But now his employees are receiving bewildering messages from him in the unlikeliest places, and reality is warping in mysterious ways.

Biografía del autor:

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and essayist. A contemporary of Ursula K. Le Guin, Dick's first short story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," was published shortly after his high-school graduation. Many of Dick's works drew upon his personal experiences with drug abuse, addressing topics such as paranoia and schizophrenia, transcendental experiences and alternate reality, and the childhood death of his twin sister is reflected through the recurring theme of the "phantom twin" in many of his novels. Despite ongoing financial troubles and issues with the IRS, Dick had a prolific writing career, winning both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award multiple times. Some of his most famous novels and stories--A Scanner Darkly, "The Minority Report," "Paycheck," and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (adapted into the film Blade Runner)--have been adapted for film. Dick died in 1982.

Anthony Heald, an Audie Award winning narrator, has earned Tony nominations and an Obie Award for his theater work; appeared in television s Law & Order, The X-Files, Miami Vice, and Boston Public; and starred as Dr. Frederick Chilton in the 1991 Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs. He lives in Ashland, Oregon, with his family.

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• Verlag: Blackstone Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1433228165
• ISBN 13: 9781433228162
• Einband: CD de audio