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

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."

Subject
philosophy
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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