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Our Friends from Frolix 8 by Philip Dick (2003, Trade Paperback)
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"Our Friends from Frolix 8" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction novel published by Vintage in 2003. This paperback edition features a plastic protector and has a total of 224 pages. The book, with a length of 8 inches and a height of 0.6 inches, explores various themes within the science fiction genre. Written in English, this trade paperback from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group is a must-read for fans of Philip K. Dick's work.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375719342
ISBN-139780375719349
eBay Product ID (ePID)2443273
Product Key Features
Book TitleOur Friends from Frolix 8
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction / General
Publication Year2003
GenreFiction
AuthorPhilip Dick
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-268871
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Dick was a sci-fi poet of paranoia." -The New York Times "One of the last century's real mastersand most unconventional practitionersof science fiction." -Book Magazine "What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half." -Art Spiegelman "One of the most original writers of the 20th century. . . . Dick's books are fun to read, full of action and humor and strong characters. They're more than a little paranoid . . . but he keeps the pages turning and keeps readers guessing about what's real and what isn't." -The Oregonian "Dick combines Franz Kafka's pervasive sense of existential dread with George Orwell's cautionary vision of the future." -Boston Herald "Dick specialized in dystopian futures, altered realities, and the effect of technology on humanity. He was a visionary writing 40 years ago about issues that have only recently become significant." -USA Today
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisFor all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely concerned with humanity's most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. In Our Friends From Frolix 8, he clashes private dreams against public battles in a fast-paced and provocative tale that ultimately addresses our salvation both as individuals and a whole. Nick Appleton is a menial laborer whose life is a series of endless frustrations. Willis Gram is the despotic oligarch of a planet ruled by big-brained elites. When they both fall in love with Charlotte Boyer, a feisty black marketer of revolutionary propaganda, Nick seems destined for doom. But everything takes a decidedly unpredictable turn when the revolution's leader, Thors Provoni, returns from ten years of intergalactic hiding with a ninety-ton protoplasmic slime that is bent on creating a new world order. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.
LC Classification NumberPS3554.I3O95 2003
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