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Robots, Androids and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (Alternatives)

What is human? What is a machine? How do they differ? Or do they?

 

In these 15 stories about robots and androids, Philip K. Dick asks these questions. The answers differ with each story — in the fictional world and in the exploring mind of Dick the only certainty is change — but the author establishes some guidelines: “To be human, one must maintain his intellectual and spir­itual freedom at all costs. He must refuse obedience to any ideology; he must re­main unpredictable, unfettered by pat­terns and routines.”

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780809311590
  • Genres
  • philosophy, fiction
  • Release date
  • 1984