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Three Early Novels - Three Early Novels "The Man Who Japed", "Dr. Futurity", "Vulcan's Hammer"

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At the beginning of his career, Philip K. Dick, whose later work won him widespread acclaim as the world's greatest sf writer, wrote a number of short novels which were published as paperback originals back-to-back in dual volumes with works by writers who were then more famous. Considerably more straightforward than his later novels, these stories are nevertheless unmistakably the work of the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik in their quirky exuberance and originality.

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Gollancz
1857989120 / 9781857989120
Paperback
813.54
14/09/2000
United Kingdom
English
Science fiction
422p.
20 cm
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Contents: Contents: The man who japed. Originally published: New York Ace, 1956; London: Magnum, 1978 - Dr. Futurity. Originally published: New York: Ace, 1960; London: Methuen, 1976 - Vulcan's hammer. Originally published: New York: Ace, 1960; London Arrow, 1976.
* 'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac' - Sunday Times * 'My literary hero' -- Fay Weldon * 'For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first' -- Terry Gilliam
* 'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac' - Sunday Times * 'My literary hero' -- Fay Weldon * 'For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first' -- Terry Gilliam DQ Anthologies (non-poetry), FL Science fiction