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A disorienting and bleakly funny novel,VALIS which stands for Vast Active Living Intelligence System is about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat who just might also be known as Philip Dick ; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser.

VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime. Taking place in the same universe as Dick's soon-to-be-published Exegesis,VALIS is a dense novel, but one that is absolutely essential to understanding the author's off-kilter worldview.

Much like Dick himself, the reader is left wondering what is real, what is fiction, and what the price is for divine inspiration. Score: 5. Portions were in the short-lived pulp magazine Dynamic but it has otherwise remained unavailable.

Here in its first full publication, the thesis explores many of the classic Golden Age stories of the s and the critical perspective that informed Gunn's essential genre history Alternate Worlds and his anthology series The Road to Science Fiction. The editor's introduction and commentary show the historical significance of Gunn's work and its relevance to today's science fiction studies.

As real Artificial Intelligence AI begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. These chapters explore the revealing pre-history of key concerns of contemporary AI discourse, from the nature of mind and creativity to issues of power and rights, from the tension between fascination and ambivalence to investigations into artificial voices and technophobia.

Part II focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first-centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerge alongside rapid developments in AI technology.

Praise for Philip K. Dick] sees all the sparkling—and terrifying—possibilities. World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey.

When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal -- the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit -- and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted.

Captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which sophisticated androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers.

In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature.

Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre.

In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? Billy Gimp was a bladerunner. Doc was a skilled surgeon at a government-operated hospital by day.

But something even more deadly than the law had already mad its first move. Five of Philip K. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick's unique imagination. In Dick's writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world's order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. His work has never been more timely. East Asia is a pivotal region in the advancement of media technologies, globalized consumerism and branding economies.

City and urban spaces are now attracting cinematic imaginaries and the academic examination of visual images and urban space in East Asian contexts. The arguments are eloquent and persuasive, with close readings of critical media texts. Many of the dynamic issues tackled in the book are 'on the edge' of film and cultural studies in Asia and should attract a wide readership. World War Terminus has destroyed almost every living being on Earth.

Now a thick layer of radioactive dust covers the ground. Most people have emigrated to other planets. Rick Deckard cannot leave Earth. He still has some unfinished business here. Rick is an android killer. Androids are robots that were created to help people. Two men are assigned: Malcolm Reed, a "special" human with the power to feel others' emotions, and Charlie Victor hide? From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner John Scalzi, a wild-and-woolly caper novel of interstellar diplomacy A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most.

To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: a type of sheep "The Android's Dream" , used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinare, who, with the help of a childhood friend turned artificial intelligence, scours the earth looking for the rare creature.

But there are others with plans for the sheep as well. Mercenaries employed by the military. Adherents of a secret religion based on the writings of a 21st century SF author. And alien races, eager to start a revolution on their home world and a war on Earth. To keep our planet from being enslaved, Harry will have to pull off a grand diplomatic coup, a gambit that will take him from the halls of power to the lava-strewn battlefields of alien worlds.

There's only one chance to get it right, to save the life of the sheep—and to protect the future of humanity. Lock In 2. Head On The Interdepency Sequence 1. The Collapsing Empire 2. The Ghost Brigades 3. The Last Colony 4. The Human Division 6. A dead man sends haunting warnings back from the grave, and Joe Chip must solve these mysteries to determine his own real or surreal existence.

Seminar paper from the year in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,00, Catholic University Eichstatt-Ingolstadt Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultat , course: Novel and Film, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: This paper deals with the impact and the effects created by the somewhat ambiguous representation of human and android life in Dick's work "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dick that deal substantially with the questions surrounding androids. It is exactly the distortion between the real as the jumping-off point cited above and the hypothetical, unreal, fictional which creates a critical comment on the world the present reader lives in. The special focus on humanlike androids in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" implies a particular philosophical issue.

Of course, the somewhat murky, obscure and intransparent depiction of androids involves the problem of man-machine relationships, which can to a certain extend be equated with human-android relationships. But Dick goes a step further, pointing out the differences as well as the parallels between both the android and the human being, using ambiguous descriptions and playing with the reader's sympathy for both sides.

One could even argue that Dick tried to create a kind of meeting halfway between man and android. Certainly, Dick himself faces difficulties when trying to define the android as "a thing somehow generated to deceive us in a cruel way, to cause us to think it to be one of ourselves.