Prize Ship: A Positronic Book - Softcover

Dick, Philip K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1515460509 ISBN 13: 9781515460503

Verlag: Positronic Publishing, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A tense early tale of isolation, distrust, and fragile authority set against the vast silence of space. In Prize Ship, Philip K. Dick examines the uneasy dynamics of command and survival aboard a damaged interstellar vessel. Cut off from reliable communication and uncertain of rescue, the crew must confront not only mechanical failure but the psychological strain of confinement. As suspicion spreads and loyalties fracture, the real threat may lie less in the vacuum outside than in the instability within. Written during Dick's formative period in the 1950s, the story anticipates themes that would later define his major work: uncertainty of perception, erosion of institutional trust, and the vulnerability of human identity under pressure. Prize Ship stands as a compelling example of mid-century science fiction turning inward, where the frontier of space becomes a testing ground for the mind. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

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Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was an American science fiction writer whose explorations of reality, identity, and authority reshaped the genre. Emerging from the pulp magazine market of the 1950s, Dick went on to write influential novels such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle, and Ubik. His work is characterized by philosophical inquiry, narrative instability, and a persistent questioning of what is real.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Positronic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1515460509
• ISBN 13: 9781515460503
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 24
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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