{"product_id":"understanding-philip-k-dick-hardcover","title":"Understanding Philip K. Dick - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Carl Link\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA guide to the fantastic world of a science fiction legend\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor of more than forty novels and myriad short stories over a three-decade literary career, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) single-handedly reshaped twentieth-century science fiction. His influence has only increased since his death with the release of numerous feature films and television series based on his work, including \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, \u003c\/i\u003eand T\u003ci\u003ehe Man in the High Castle.\u003c\/i\u003e In \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Philip K. Dick, \u003c\/i\u003e Eric Carl Link introduces readers to the life, career, and work of this groundbreaking, prolific, and immeasurably influential force in American literature, media culture, and contemporary science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDick was at times a postmodernist, a mainstream writer, a pulp fiction writer, and often all three simultaneously, but as Link illustrates, he was more than anything else a novelist of ideas. From this vantage point, Link surveys Dick's tragicomic biography, his craft and career, and the recurrent ideas and themes that give shape and significance to his fiction. Link finds across Dick's writing career an intellectual curiosity that transformed his science fiction novels from bizarre pulp extravaganzas into philosophically challenging explorations of the nature of reality, and it is this depth of vision that continues to garner new audiences and fresh approaches to Dick's genre-defining tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA guidebook into the fantastic world of a science fiction legend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Carl Link\u003c\/b\u003e is provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Dakota. A scholar of American literature, his books include\u003ci\u003e The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century \u003c\/i\u003eand, as coeditor, \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge History of Science Fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42714712899647,"sku":"9781570038556","price":235.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3250120c6fcf8406c6f923b10e3de5d7.webp?v=1765069084","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/understanding-philip-k-dick-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}