In this account of the 2,000-year transmission of Buddhism to the West, Sutin introduces the seekers, sages, explorers, and charlatans through whom Buddhism has become a part of the cultural landscape in the West.
In this account of the 2,000-year transmission of Buddhism to the West, Sutin introduces the seekers, sages, explorers, and charlatans through whom Bu...
What Kafka was to the first half of the twentieth century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half. Art Spiegelman, author of MAUS
Philip K. Dick was both our most brilliant science fiction writer and a visionary philosopher who chose to couch his speculations in fiction. For, as he wrote about androids and virtual reality, schizophrenic prophets and amnesiac gods, Dick was also posing fundamental questions: What is reality? What is sanity? And what is human? This unprecedented collection of Dick s literary and philosophical writings acquaints us with the astonishing range and...
What Kafka was to the first half of the twentieth century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half. Art Spiegelman, author of MAUS
Divine Invasions is the definitive biography of one of America's greatest novelists and science fiction's greatest ambassador to literary audiences. Philip K. Dick loosened the bonds of the genre, ultimately making his reputation as a literary writer who happened to write speculative fiction, and profoundly influencing such writers as Pynchon, Delillo, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Lethem. Divine Invasions is being reissued to coincide with the fall 2005 release of "A Scanner Darkly," a film based on Dick's novel of the same name.
Divine Invasions is the definitive biography of one of America's greatest novelists and science fiction's greatest ambassador to literary audiences. P...
