Our Friends from Frolix 8 by Philip K. Dick

In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.Our Friends From Frolix 8 is a 1970 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau.

In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. 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. 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.

When they both fall in love with Charlotte Boyer, a feisty black marketer of revolutionary propaganda, Nick seems destined for doom. Willis Gram is the despotic oligarch of a planet ruled by big-brained elites. Nick Appleton is a menial laborer whose life is a series of endless frustrations. 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. Dick was largely concerned with humanity’s most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K.

Our Friends from Frolix 8 by Philip K. Dick