PHILIP K. DICKA WORK OF LUCA TOSCANO AND EDOARDO CARLANDO

THE BIOGRAPHY

Born on December 16, 1928 in Chicago and he spent most of his life in Los Angeles, California

The death of his twin sister and the recurrent motif of the "phantom twin" in his books.

A complex relationship with the female genre

In 1949: • The interest for the science fiction with “Stirring Science

Fiction”• He attended the Berkeley University, studying German and

Philosophy

Debut with novel Solar Lottery, published in 19551950s was a difficult period , he dreamed a career in the mainstream genre.In 1963 won the Hugo Award He died in Santa Ana, California in 1982.

WORKS

Some of his books inspired many film: Total Recall, Minority Report, Impostor, Screamers and Blade Runner.

The most famous work was:

WE CAN BUILD YOU

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Set in 1982, the protagonist is Louis Rosen, a small businessman of a company that made androids based on Civil War figures

The company complete two prototypes: Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln with different behavior

UBIK

Set in 1992, in a years of advanced technology. The protagonist is Joe Chip, a technician for a organization involved in the world of psychic powers. He and others 10 people went to the moon and fall in a trap.

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A SCANNER DARKLY The protagonist is Bob Arctor who live a double life: member of a household of drug-users and an undercover police agent as Agent Fred

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Arctor becomes addicted to "Substance D”. When he entered in “New-Path” begins to experience the symptoms of Substance D.

THEMES

• The “real” and the construction of personal identity

• Alternate universes and simulacra

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•View of the universe

•Mental illness

•Drug use8

THEMES

• The concept of god

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The Trouble with Bubbles

Fair Game

THEMES

PLOT “DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP”

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Two different plot

Post-apocalyptic near future

Rick Deckard J.R. Isidore