The Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick: Volume 2 (Library) [Audio CD]

Dick (Author), Philip K. (Author), various readers (Narrator) (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2008

Includes We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Upon The Dull Earth, The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, Faith of Our Fathers, The Days of Perky Pat, The Variable Man, and I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon.

Editorial Reviews

From AudioFile

[Editor's Note: This is a combined review with THE SELECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK, Volume 1.]--From time travel to perceived reality, these wonderful collections feature 16 of Dick's most celebrated and thought-provoking short stories. Among the standouts are Anthony Heald's calm, engaging reading of the reality-examining "Electric Ant," in which Garson Poole discovers he's actually a robot; Tom Weiner's taut narration of "The Variable Man," which challenges the purported dangers of time travel and Paul Michael Garcia's delivery of "Faith of Our Fathers," about a party bureaucrat in a future communist Vietnam. While the stories' dystopian (but all-too-familiar) vision of the world will keep the listener engaged, it's the excellent matching of story to narrator that makes this collection an outstanding listen. The stories are certainly fascinating in themselves, but it's the narrators' skilled readings of them that will keep the listener enthralled. A.H.A. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the MP3 CD edition.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.; Unabridged edition (December 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1433228300
• ISBN-13: 978-1433228308
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 6.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,638,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)