Opening the first few pages anyone whose read Dr. Voices from the street is quite the curious book if you take into account all of PKD's other books as many ideas are explicitly recycled in his later novels.

In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923.

Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. PS: sorry for possible misspellings and that, Engrish is not my mother language.Philip K.

:)Īnd this answer in reverse (for other people): If you've read the novel you can give a chance to the movie, because the animation and some little differencies make it enjoyable without perverting the original idea. So I think that if you loved the movie you can give it a chance (or maybe you did it 2 years ago) to the novel, as it's a good way to complete some stuff exposed on the movie and you can read it in two or three days because is not a long book. Also, Luckman is pretty different, and Freck in the movie is the amalgam of various characters from the novel. Said that, I prefer the novel (I read the novel one day and watched the movie next day), because it goes beyond in some sequences, and made some passages more extended adding some interesting things, as for example with the scene of the bike gears, the car incident, or the part of New-Path, and some other stuff, including more philosophical thoughts of Bob/Fred, and, of course, more weirdo dialogues with the friends. (view spoiler) [The movie is nice, specially for the rotoscopy animation, but is like a summary of the novel with some little exceptions and the variation on the plot twist.

O Homem Duplo by Philip K. Dick