Philip K Dick
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Long before Ridley Scott transformed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) into Blade Runner (Warner Bros., 1982), Philip K. Dick was banging away at his typewriter in relative obscurity, ostracised by the literary establishment. Today he is widely considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. These interviews reveal a man plagued by bouts of manic paranoia and failed suicide attempts; a career fuelled by alcohol, amphetamines...
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Presents a collection of eighteen stories and novellas written between 1954 and 1963-- including such novels as Martian Time Slip and the Hugo Award-winning The Man in the High Castle. Included here are "Autofac", a post-apocalyptic tale in which humans share the devastated Earth with the machines they have created but no longer fully control; "The mold of Yancy", a portrait of a world reduced to bland conformity by the vapid, and ubiquitous pronouncements...
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Crime and Detectiv. Science fiction. Graphic Novel. The book that inspired the film BLADE RUNNER comes to comics! Worldwide best-selling sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and served as the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER. BOOM! Studios is honored to present the complete novel transplanted into the graphic novel medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel...
96) Blade runner
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In the year 2019 in Los Angeles, replicants, genetically engineered human beings of superior strength and intelligence, have been created as labor for the planet colonies. The replicants, which have a life span of four years, start revolts and are forbidden on Earth. Four Nexus 6 replicants, which are virtually indistinguishable from humans, commandeer a space shuttle to Earth. Rick Deckard is a blade runner, a police officer who hunts down and terminates...
97) Total recall
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Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
99) A scanner darkly
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"The time: just beyond now. The place: suburbia. The story: a twisted, funny tale of people hooked on Substance D. And of a government that cheerfully destroys its citizens -- their rights, their relationships -- in order to save them. Two strung-out friends [are] terrified of each other and of spies. A spy [is] also one of the friends... until his two personalities begins to split. Enjoy the paranoia. Nobody's watching you. Really."--Container.
100) Minority report
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John Anderton is a Washington D.C. detective in the year 2054. He is part of 'Precrime, ' a special police department that arrests criminals before they commit the actual crime. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as a future killer, he must find out why and how he broke the law in order to prove his innocence of the crime he has yet to commit.