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Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick
| Author: | Philip K. Dick |
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Southern Illinois University Press, 1984 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
What is human? What is a machine? How do they differ? Or do they?
In these 15 stories about robots and androids, Philip K. Dick asks these questions. The answers differ with each story--in the fictional world and in the exploring mind of Dick the only certainty is change--but the author establishes some guidelines: "To be human, one must maintain his intellectual and spiritual freedom at all costs. He must refuse obedience to any ideology; he must remain unpredictable, unfettered by patterns and routines."
Table of Contents:
- Second Variety - (1953) - novelette
- War Game - (1959) - short story
- The Defenders - (1953) - novelette
- The Electric Ant - (1969) - short story
- Autofac - (1955) - novelette
- Impostor - (1953) - short story
- The Little Movement - (1952) - short story
- The Exit Door Leads In - (1979) - short story
- Frozen Journey - (1980) - short story
- A Game of Unchance - (1964) - novelette
- The Last of the Masters - (1954) - novelette
- The Preserving Machine - (1953) - short story
- Sales Pitch - (1954) - short story
- Service Call - (1955) - novelette
- To Serve the Master - (1956) - short story
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