A First Glimpse at Philip K. Dick’s Mesmerizing, Previously Unpublished Work

Philip K. Dick , generator of Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? , is perhaps one of the most extol science fiction writer of our clock time ( And sure as shooting one of the most altered . Hollywood has made versions of 21 of P.K.D. ’s tomes , including Blade Runner , Total Recall and Minority Report . ) Yet , until now , reader have barely glimpse the totality of his metre - thwarting , mind - bending body of work .

On November 8,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will release The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick , edited by Pamela Jackson and Motherless Brooklyn generator , Jonathan Lethem . The 976 - Sir Frederick Handley Page work lay out P.K.D. ’s eight - year geographic expedition of an out - of - body experience he cryptically referred to as “ 2 - 3 - 74 ” . A frustratingly fracture , yet ingenious mop up of hallucinatory episode , scientific conjecture and cosmic hypothesis , “ 2 - 3 - 74 ” is document through collected scribblings , diary entries and letters to friends ( include Ursula Le Guin ) .

Jonathan Lethem name the writing within Exegesis as “ unprecedented in their debauched urging , their metaphorical vitality , their self - satirizing charisma [ and ] their lonely affair ” . What ’s more , it bring home the bacon haunt perceptivity into “ one of the more glorious and unusual minds to make itself love to the twentieth Century . ” The previously unpublished masterpiece is being release in tandem with 8 redesigned edition of P.K.D. ’s workplace , include : The Valis trilogy , Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and A Scanner Darkly .