Title: The Golden Man, and other short stories.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Recommended by: Myself
About 80% of the time, besides just reading regular books, I'll be reading some collection of short stories. I love short stories, and science fiction ones especially because they're easy to read, they're quick, and sf ones usually mess with your mind just a little bit, everything you want.
Anyway, with the movie 'Next' coming out, I read the book containing that short story. And it's a pretty good collection, including one of my favorites, and one of Dick's few pieces of fantasy, "The King of the Elves." Reading this book also inspired me to buy the full collection of Philip K. Dick's short stories. Philip K. Dick, if you don't know, was an amazing science fiction writer, and a good number of his stories were made into movies, including the world's best movie, Total Recall.
Recommendation: 8/10: short stories, science, and... wait for it.... fiction! Yeah, nothing like fiction to take that edge off of science. Science says, "Flying cars are unpractical and won't happen." Science fiction says that those very same cars are piloted by robots!
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"Science says, "Flying cars are unpractical and won't happen." Science fiction says that those very same cars are piloted by robots!"
hahahaha i love it
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