About the Author

Born in Chicago in 1928, Philip K. Dick would go on to become one of the most celebrated science fiction authors of all time. The author of 44 published novels and 120 short stories, Dick won a Hugo Award in 1963, and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975, and was nominated five separate times for the Nebula Award. Eleven of his works have been turned into films, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. He died in 1982.

Reviews

Praise for Philip K. Dick
 
“The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world.”—John Brunner
 
“A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.”—The New York Times

Gr 8 Up-Dick's science-fiction classic has been transformed into a full-color graphic novel. This volume collects issues 9 through 12 of the 24-issue maxi-series and reads like a detective novel. Unlike an adaptation, this series retains all of the original text. Often, the caption box repeats what is illustrated in the panel. Page layouts feature large panels, typically three per page, to accommodate the numerous caption boxes and dialogue balloons. Parker's natural style shows a futuristic Northern California, done in muted tones, worn around the edges. The characters' facial expressions and body language enhance the tense psychological and physical exchanges. While questioning a rogue android, Rick Deckard uncovers a phantom police agency that has no record of him, calling into question his own existence. Despite the bounty-hunter premise, the story does not glorify violence, and it offers age-appropriate images. Supplementary material includes a 20-plus-page essay, "Crazy Friend," written by Jonathan Lethem, which includes two of his short stories and chronicles his journey as a Dick fan. Science-fiction fans may grouse that the artwork does not match their own vision of Dick's futuristic world, which was also the complaint many had with Blade Runner, the movie inspired by the author's novel. This is a welcome purchase for science-fiction or graphic-novel collections.-June Shimonishi, Torrance Public Library, CA (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Praise for Philip K. Dick

"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."-John Brunner

"A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet."-The New York Times