Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

A collection of PKD short stories that were the inspiration for episodes of the television programme Electric Dreams. Some were true to the original whilst others had only mere snippets of them, often changing dramatically to bring them up to date and more inclusive. Actually quite a decent collectio......more

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is a collection of the ten short stories that inspired the Channel Four TV series of the same name, each story also comes with a brief introduction from the writer who adapted it for the series which explains their thought process behind any changes they made. I'll t......more

I really enjoyed this short story collection of some of PK Dick's finest and weirdest or short stories. Of course, as we all know, he was a genius and predicted the anxiety and reality confusion of the modern world like no one else! Etc. etc., you've heard it all before. What is unique about this an......more

If I ask you to you think of a Science Fiction author who has had more adaptations for cinema of their work than anyone else, you will probably say, Philip K. Dick. As one critic put it “he found the ordinary in the extraordinary” although actually that is still true when put the other way round: he......more

Eu costumo gostar bastante de livros de contos e com esse não foi diferente. Minha ideia inicial era intercalar a leitura com os episódios da série, mas no final das contas, por enquanto, fiquei só com a leitura. Agora quero ver se faço uma mini manatora para conferir as adaptações :) Comecei esse liv......more