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Human Is?: A Philip K. Dick Reader

por Philip K. Dick

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This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1955 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Human Is is a short story about changing identities. Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. Dick and his family moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco when he was young, and later on to Washington DC following his parents divorce. Dick attended Elementary school and then a Quaker school before the family moved back to California. It was around this time that Dick began to take an active interest in the science fiction genre, reading his first magazine Stirring Science Stories, at age twelve. Dick married five times between 1959 and 1973, and had three children. He sold his first story in 1951 and from that point on he wrote full-time, selling his first novel in 1955. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. After his death, many of his stories made the transition to the big screen, with blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report being based on his works.… (más)
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I loved this collection of short stories. It included some of my favorite Philip K Dick yarns. I was struck by how original and lateral he could be while remaining engaging and ahead of his time. ( )
  Aetherson | Apr 26, 2021 |
This volume would act as a great introduction to PKD for those unfamiliar with his work. All his main themes are represented and the average standard of the stories is very high. I'd read most of them before in one place or another but none of it was time wasted for me. ( )
  Arbieroo | Jul 17, 2020 |
Rating: 4* of five

I'd give the episode 4.5 stars because it's a lot richer and more nuanced, and because it's got the ineffably lovely Essie Davis of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries fame as the female lead.

PKD's story is a different animal in the details...Vera and Silas Herrick are a scientist and a Colonel respectively, while Jill and Lester Herrick in the story are a housewife and a scientist respectively...but the broad strokes are the same. What exactly does it mean to be human? What makes someone a human being, mere accident of birth or some more inscrutable, indefinable something?

Both stories center on this question and answer it in the same way. These issues aren't unfamiliar to the modern audience, either. We face our McCarthyite issues by not facing them, just as our parents didn't face them in the 1950s until they were forced to do so by one courageous, outraged man.

We are still waiting for a man the equal of that one to arise, and wanna bet me he'll be a woman this time? She'd better get a wriggle on. Crap's gettin' all too real for the Dreamers and the deportees.

The episode's other beauties are all about textures of the world of 2520. The writer and the producers make this a very different Terra, and the visuals are glorious. The world-building is done so much more readily with images than it is with words. PKD did little more than sketch in a world like the 1954 he was living in but with robot servants, robants. The showrunners made the Earth Vera and Silas live on a major factor in the story, where to PKD's story it was unimportant.

Don't sprain anything hunting up the story. Sprain ankles, wrists, elbows if necessary to get the show into your eyes. It is outstanding. ( )
  richardderus | Feb 17, 2018 |
Dick's characters are horrible human caricatures (in both senses). It is not clear that it is always intentional. I cannot be more complimentary about his science either. Irony often works, though.
+ means hit, - means miss:

+ Beyond Lies the Wub (1952)
You are what you eat.
- The Defenders (1953)
Humans turn cold war hot, but machines know better.
- Roog (1953)
Dogs.
+ Second Variety (1953)
Robot arms race exploits human weakness.
+ Impostor (1953)
Alien identity bombs.
- The Preserving Machine (1953)
Theriomorphic music adapts to survive.
- The Variable Man (1953)
Magic hands beat FTL.
+ Paycheck (1953)
Time makes one smarter.
- Adjustment Team (1954)
Dogs are in on reality mirage.
- The Father-Thing (1954)
Body snatchers.
+ Foster, You're Dead (1955)
Cruel, cold war suburbia.
+ Human Is (1955)
Cold scientist, warm alien.
+ The Mold of Yancy (1955)
Ideological marketing, on Callisto.
- If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1963)
Alien investigators trust postapocalyptic, automated newspaper.
- The Days of Perky Pat (1963)
Postapocalyptic doll play, taken way too seriously.
+ Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964)
Shades of Gift of the Magi, without sympathy.
+ We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966)
Memory, an economic alternative to experience, mostly.
+ The Electric Ant (1969)
Self experiments of a von Neumann machine.
- A Little Something for Us Tempunauts (1974)
Time loop death wish.
- The Pre-Persons (1974)
Abortion ridicule. ( )
  igor.kh | May 21, 2011 |
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This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1955 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Human Is is a short story about changing identities. Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. Dick and his family moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco when he was young, and later on to Washington DC following his parents divorce. Dick attended Elementary school and then a Quaker school before the family moved back to California. It was around this time that Dick began to take an active interest in the science fiction genre, reading his first magazine Stirring Science Stories, at age twelve. Dick married five times between 1959 and 1973, and had three children. He sold his first story in 1951 and from that point on he wrote full-time, selling his first novel in 1955. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. After his death, many of his stories made the transition to the big screen, with blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report being based on his works.

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