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The minority report : and other classic stories / by Dick, Philip K.,author.; Dick, Philip K.Short stories.Selections.; Tiptree, James, Jr.,1915-1987,writer of introduction.;
A collection of eighteen science fiction short stories features "The Minority Report," in which Commissioner John Anderton's clever use of "precogs," people who can identify criminals before they can do any harm, turns against him when they identify him as the next criminal.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Short stories.;
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Blade runner [videorecording] / by motion picture adaptation of (work):Dick, Philip K.Do androids dream of electric sheep?[videorecording].; Ford, Harrison,1942-actor.; Hannah, Daryl,actor.; Hauer, Rutger,1944-actor.; Olmos, Edward James,actor.; Scott, Ridley,film director.; Young, Sean,actor.; Warner Home Video (Firm),publisher.;
Screenplay, Hampton Faucher and David Peoples ; music, Vangelis.Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah.In Phillip K. Dick's science fiction story, replicants are genetically engineered humans of superior strength and intelligence. This adventure film based on the Dick story stars Harrison Ford as a 21st century detective assigned the mission to locate and destroy four rebellious replicants.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Dick, Philip K.; Androids; Detectives; Dystopias; Genetic engineering;
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The adjustment bureau [videorecording] / by Blunt, Emily.; Carter, Natalie.; Damon, Matt.; Dick, Philip K.Adjustment bureau.Videorecording.; Kastriner, Florence.; MacBryde, Phyllis.; Mackie, Anthony,1979-; Nolfi, George.; Scarborough, Chuck.; Slattery, John,1963-; Stewart, Jon,1962-; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Music by Jay Rabinowitz ; director of photography, John Toll ; edited by Jay Rabinowitz.Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery, Anthony Mackie, Florence Kastriner, Natalie Carter, Phyllis MacBryde, Jon Stewart, Chuck Scarborough.The budding romance between a rising U.S. congressman and a gifted ballet dancer is unexpectedly complicated by otherworldly forces seeking to drive them apart by altering the very fabric of reality. David Norris (Matt Damon) is a rising New York congressmen whose everyman charisma has earned him a loyal following among locals. One night, after suffering a crushing political defeat, David is rehearsing his concession speech in a hotel bathroom when out of a stall wanders Elise (Emily Blunt), who was hiding out from security guards after crashing a wedding. The chemistry between David and Elise is instant and electric. But as fast as she appeared, Elise has vanished, leaving David to wonder if he will ever see her again. A few days later, as if by chance, David is boarding a bus for work when he spots Elise in a window seat. Though he manages to get her number this time, David is terrified when he arrives at his new job and discovers a mysterious group of men performing an unusual procedure on his paralyzed co-workers. Informed by the imposing and sharp-dressed Richardson (John Slattery) that he has just seen behind a curtain that few will ever know even exists.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, DVS Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Dick, Philip K.; Ballerinas; Fate and fatalism; Feature films.; Legislators; Man-woman relationships; Science fiction films.;
© c2011., Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
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The adjustment bureau [videorecording] / by Blunt, Emily.; Carter, Natalie.; Damon, Matt.; Dick, Philip K.Adjustment bureau.Videorecording.; Kastriner, Florence.; MacBryde, Phyllis.; Mackie, Anthony,1979-; Nolfi, George.; Scarborough, Chuck.; Slattery, John,1963-; Stewart, Jon,1962-; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Music by Jay Rabinowitz ; director of photography, John Toll ; edited by Jay Rabinowitz.Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery, Anthony Mackie, Florence Kastriner, Natalie Carter, Phyllis MacBryde, Jon Stewart, Chuck Scarborough.The budding romance between a rising U.S. congressman and a gifted ballet dancer is unexpectedly complicated by otherworldly forces seeking to drive them apart by altering the very fabric of reality. David Norris (Matt Damon) is a rising New York congressmen whose everyman charisma has earned him a loyal following among locals. One night, after suffering a crushing political defeat, David is rehearsing his concession speech in a hotel bathroom when out of a stall wanders Elise (Emily Blunt), who was hiding out from security guards after crashing a wedding. The chemistry between David and Elise is instant and electric. But as fast as she appeared, Elise has vanished, leaving David to wonder if he will ever see her again. A few days later, as if by chance, David is boarding a bus for work when he spots Elise in a window seat. Though he manages to get her number this time, David is terrified when he arrives at his new job and discovers a mysterious group of men performing an unusual procedure on his paralyzed co-workers. Informed by the imposing and sharp-dressed Richardson (John Slattery) that he has just seen behind a curtain that few will ever know even exists.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, DVS Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Dick, Philip K.; Ballerinas; Fate and fatalism; Feature films.; Legislators; Man-woman relationships; Science fiction films.;
© c2011., Universal Studios Home Entertainment,
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Blade runner 2049 [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Armas, Ana de,1988-actor.; Fancher, Hampton,screenwriter.; Ford, Harrison,1942-actor.; Gosling, Ryan,1980-actor.; Green, Michael J.,screenwriter.; Villeneuve, Denis,1967-film director.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.;
Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright.This sequel to Ridley Scott's landmark 1982 science-fiction film picks up the story 30 years later, giving viewers another detailed look at a future in which humanity live in polluted, overcrowded cities and rely on androids known as "replicants" for slave labor. In 2049 Los Angeles, K (Ryan Gosling) works as a "blade runner," a specialized law-enforcement agent dedicated to tracking down and killing rogue replicants. But when he uncovers a shocking conspiracy involving the robot laborers, he searches for the one person who might have answers: a former blade runner named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who vanished decades earlier.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos True HD, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Dystopian films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department; Artificial intelligence; Missing persons; Androids; Human-robot interaction;
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By force alone / by Tidhar, Lavie,author.;
Everyone thinks they know the story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. The fact is they don't know sh*t. A savage and cutting epic fantasy, equally poetic and profane, 'By Force Alone' is a retelling of the Arthurian myth for the age of Brexit and Trump. Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of 'Osama', and the Campbell Award-winning author of 'Central Station'. His work has been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by the Guardian and the Financial Times.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Arthur, King; Magic;
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Minority report [videorecording]. by Cruise, Tom; Von Sydow, Max; Morton, Samantha; Farrell, Colin; Harris, Steve; Nelson, Tim Blake; Smith, Lois; Dick, Philip K.;
Tom Cruise, Max Von Sydow, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell, Steve Harris, Tim Blake Nelson, Lois Smith.Director, Steven Spielberg.Blu-ray.CHVRS rating: 14A.John Anderton, a Washington D.C. detective in the year 2054, is part of 'Precrime,' a special police department that arrests criminals before they commit the actual crime. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as a future killer, he must find out why and how he broke the law in order to change his future. Includes interview, short story, and behind-the-scenes highlights.
Subjects: Action.; Action / Adventure.; Sci-Fi.;
© 2010., Paramount Home Entertainment,
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The good German : a novel / by Bock, Dennis,1964-author.;
In November 1939, a German anti-fascist named Georg Elser came as close to assassinating Adolf Hitler as anyone ever had. In this gripping novel of alternate history, he doesn't just come close--he succeeds. But he could never have imagined the terrible consequences that would follow from this act of heroism. Hermann Göring, masterful political strategist, assumes the Chancellery and quickly signs a non-aggression treaty with the isolationist president Joseph Kennedy that will keep America out of the war that is about to engulf Europe. Göring rushes the German scientific community into developing the atomic bomb, and in August 1944, this devastating new weapon is tested on the English capital. London lies in ruins. The war is over, fascism prevails in Europe, and Canada, the Commonwealth holdout in the Americas, suffers on as a client state of the Soviet Union. Georg Elser, blinded in the A-bombing of London, is shipped to Canada and quarantined in a hospice near Toronto called Mercy House. Here we meet William Teufel, a German-Canadian boy who in the summer of 1960 devises a plan that he hopes will distance himself from his German heritage and, unwittingly, brings him face to face with the man whose astonishing act of heroism twenty-one years earlier set the world on its terrifying new path. In this page-turning narrative, Bock has created an utterly compelling and original novel of historical speculation in the vein of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, John Wyndham's The Chrysalids and Philip K. Dick's cult classic The Man in the High Castle.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Alternative histories (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946; World War, 1939-1945;
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Counterweight / by Tyuna,author.; Hur, Anton,translator.; translation of:Tyuna.P'yŏnghyŏngch'u.English.;
"For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator-from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan-and much to the ire of the Patusan natives-the Korean conglomerate LK is constructing an elevator into Earth's orbit, gradually turning this one-time tropical resort town into a teeming travel hub: a gateway to and from our planet. Up in space, holding the elevator's "spider cable" taut, is a mass of space junk known as the counterweight. And it's here that lies the key-a trove of personal data left by LK's former CEO, of dire consequence to the company's, and humanity's, future. Racing up the elevator to retrieve the data is a host of rival forces: Mac, the novel's narrator and LK's Chief of External Affairs, increasingly disillusioned with his employer; the everyman Choi Gangwu, unwittingly at the center of Mac's investigations; the former CEO's brilliant niece and his power-hungry son; and a violent officer from LK's Security Division, Rex Tamaki-all caught in a labyrinth of fake identities, neuro-implant "Worms," and old political grievances held by the Patusan Liberation Front, the army of island natives determined to protect their sovereignty. Conceived by Djuna as a low-budget science fiction film, with literary references as wide-ranging as Joseph Conrad and the Marquis de Sade, The Counterweight is part cyberpunk, part hardboiled detective fiction, and part parable of Korea's neocolonial ambition and its rippling effects"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Artificial intelligence; Corporations; Indigenous peoples;
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