046 PK Dick Award reading of THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman
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046 PK Dick Award reading of THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman
MCed by William Sadorus (https://www.facebook.com/william.sadorus) and Gordon Van Gelder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Van_Gelder)
PK Dick Award official website: https://www.philipkdickaward.org
Award Night video: https://youtu.be/cN_bcnNADi0
The Nominees:
episode 44 TIME WAS by Ian McDonald (Tor.com)
episode 45 ALIEN VIRUS LOVE DISASTER: STORIES by Abbey Mei Otis (Small Beer Press)
THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman (Europa Editions)
THE BODY LIBRARY by Jeff Noon (Angry Robot) read by Adam Kakoonis
84K by Claire North (Orbit)
AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press)
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction. His work explored philosophical, social, and political themes, with stories dominated by monopolistic corporations, alternative universes, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. His writing also reflected his interest in metaphysics and theology.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dick moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with his family at a young age. He began publishing science fiction stories in 1951, at the age of 22. His stories initially found little commercial success,[2] but his 1962 alternative history novel The Man in the High Castle earned Dick early acclaim, including a Hugo Award for Best Novel.[3]
A variety of popular Hollywood films based on Dick’s works have been produced, including Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (adapted twice: in 1990 and in 2012), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and The Adjustment Bureau (2011). Meanwhile, the novel The Man in the High Castle (1962) was made into a multi-season television series by Amazon, starting in 2015.
In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik (1969) one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923.[6] In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer ever to be included in The Library of America series.[7][8][9][10]
