Philip K Dick
2) Ubik
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business--deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in "half-life," a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this documentary film, viewers learn about the life of Philip K. Dick including his early work as a pulp fiction novelist, his successful career with Hollywood, and his obsession with artificial intelligence. Friends and experts remember the man, his importance in the literary world, and the psychoses that drove his work. Hear excerpts of Dick talking about his own work.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel and microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In Phillip K. Dick's science fiction story, replicants are genetically engineered humans of superior strength and intelligence. This adventure film based on the Dick story stars Harrison Ford as a 21st century detective assigned the mission to locate and destroy four rebellious replicants. Contains scenes of graphic violence. This version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, and removes the "uplifting" finale, increasing the emotional impact.
7) Total recall
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2084 a worker leaves Earth for the mind-bending nightmarish reality of a Martian mining colony ruled over by a dictator who can alter reality to suit his whims.