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Robots, Androids, And Mechanical Oddities
''Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick'' is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by the Southern Illinois University Press in 1984 and was edited by Patricia S. Warrick and Martin H. Greenberg. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'', ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', ''Space Science Fiction'', ''Astounding'', ''Future'', ''Orbit'', ''Science Fiction Stories'', ''Imagination'', ''Amazing Stories'', ''Rolling Stone College Papers'' and ''Playboy''. Contents * Introduction, by Patricia S. Warrick & Martin H. Greenberg * " The Little Movement" * " The Defenders" * "The Preserving Machine" * "Second Variety" * "Impostor" * "Sales Pitch" * " The Last of the Masters" * "Service Call" * "Autofac" * " To Serve the Master" * "War Game" * "A Game of Unchance" * "The Electric Ant" * "The Exit Door Leads In" * "Frozen Journey" (Title changed to "I H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip K
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great * Philip III of Macedon, half-brother of Alexander the Great * Philip IV of Macedon * Philip V of Macedon New Testament * Philip the Apostle * Philip the Evangelist Others * Philippus of Croton (c. 6th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impostor (short Story)
"Impostor" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in ''Astounding SF'' magazine in June, 1953. Plot Spence Olham, a member of a team designing an offensive weapon to destroy invading aliens known as the Outspacers, is confronted by a colleague and accused by security officer Major Peters of being an android impostor designed to sabotage Earth's defenses. The impostor's ship was damaged and has crashed just outside the city. The android is supposed to detonate a planet-destroying bomb on the utterance of a deadly code phrase. Olham, in an attempt to clear his name and prove his humanity, manages to escape his captors and return to Earth after they fail to kill him on the Moon. Upon reaching Earth, Olham contacts his wife, Mary, but is soon ambushed by security officers waiting for him by his house. Out of options and with Major Peters' forces closing in, Olham decides to prove he is a human by finding the crashed Outspacer spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story Collections By Philip K
Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Arts, entertainment, and media * Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject) * Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting * ''The Short-Timers'', a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Hasford, about military short-timers in Vietnam Brands and enterprises * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Finance * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II Foodstuffs * Short pastry, one which is rich in but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Short Story Collections
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States. February * February 3 ** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. ** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission. * February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. * February 8– 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
"I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" is a short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. The short story was first published in ''Playboy'' in December 1980, under the title "Frozen Journey". Plot summary In the story, a man (Victor Kemmings) regains consciousness during a failed attempt at cryosleep on board a spaceship. The ship's artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ... cannot repair the malfunction and cannot wake him, so Kemmings is doomed to remain conscious but paralyzed through the ship's entire ten-year-long journey. To maintain his sanity, the A.I. replays Kemmings's memories to him. But when this goes awry, the ship's A.I. asks Kemmings what he wants most -- and the answer is that Kemming wants the trip to be over and to arrive at his new home. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Exit Door Leads In
"The Exit Door Leads In" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. First published in 1979. "The Exit Door Leads In" was written for ''Rolling Stone College Papers'', a short-lived publication. It is one of Dick's few stories created at the request of editors. It was reprinted in Terry Carr's '' The Best Science Fiction of the year #9''. Plot summary Bob Bibleman is tricked into enrolling in a military college, where his accidental discovery of classified information presents him with a moral quandary. Release "The Exit Door Leads In" was first published in the inaugural issue of ''Rolling Stone College Papers'' in 1979. The following year it was reprinted in the ninth volume of the anthology series ''The Best Science Fiction of the Year''. It has been included in several collections of Dick's work, including the 1984 ''Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities'' and 1985 ''I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon''. The short story has been translated into French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Electric Ant
"The Electric Ant" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'' magazine in October 1969. Plot summary Garson Poole wakes up after a flying-car-crash to find that he is missing a hand. He then finds out that he is an 'electric ant' an "organic" robot. He further finds out that what he believes is his subjective reality is being fed to him from a micro-punched tape in his chest cavity. He experiments on this tape by adding new holes, which adds things to his reality. Convinced that his entire reality is constrained by the tape, he makes a major change to it, with a major effect on his reality. The change affects everyone else he interacts with, which raises the question of whether any of them – or he himself – are "real" at all. Dick said of the story: Adaptations In 2010 Marvel Comics adapted "The Electric Ant" as a limited series. The comic books were produced by writer David Mack (''Daredevi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Game Of Unchance
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Game (short Story)
War Game is a 1959 short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in the magazine ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', in December 1959, and has since been re-published in two anthologies and at least twenty-four collections. Plot summary The Ganymede (moon), Ganymedans are considering war with Earth. A group of Earth toy safety inspectors examine three new toys from Ganymede to discover if they should be allowed to be imported: A toy soldier game where 12 soldiers attack a citadel, a virtual reality suit, and ''Syndrome'', a ''Monopoly (game), Monopoly''-like board game. The inspectors determine that the citadel is absorbing the soldiers one by one for an unknown purpose, and fear that the game may secretly be an atomic bomb building to critical mass. The suit is so realistic that an inspector finds returning to reality difficult; with enough time a child would find doing so impossible. They play the board game while waiting with a bomb disposal expert for the last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autofac
"Autofac" is a 1955 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick that features one of the earliest treatments of self-replicating machines (and Dick's second, after his 1953 short story ''Second Variety''). It appeared originally in ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' of November 1955, and was reprinted in several collections, including ''The Variable Man'' published in 1957, and ''Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities'' published in 1984. The story was adapted by Travis Beacham for an episode of the 2017 TV series, '' Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams''. Plot summary Three men wait outside their settlement for an automated delivery truck. Five years earlier, during the Total Global Conflict, a network of hardened automatic factories ("autofacs") had been set up with cybernetic controls that determine what food and consumer goods to manufacture and deliver. Human input had been lost, and the men planned disruption to try to establish communication and take over contro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Service Call
"Service Call" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in ''Science Fiction Stories'', July 1955. Plot The plot centers on a man, Courtland, who one evening at his home is visited by a nervous and peculiar repairman. The repairman The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure, and supporting utilities in industrial, business, and residential install ... states he is answering a service call made from Courtland's address and wishes to repair some sort of appliance called a "swibble". Courtland is irritated by the disturbance. Having not made any appointment, nor having the slightest clue about swibbles, Courtland angrily sends the man away. Shortly later, Courtland gets curious about the man. He goes back to his door to see if he is still there. There is no sign of the man save for the crumpled service orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
