Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick
Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick is a biography by Paul Williams published by Arbor House in 1986.
Plot summary
[edit]Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick is a biography of Philip K. Dick by Williams, who interviewed Dick in the 1970s for Rolling Stone.[1]
Reception
[edit]J. Michael Caparula reviewed Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer No. 81.[1] Caparula commented that "This is a penetrating portrait of one of the greatest and most influential SF writer of the past thirty years."[1]
Publishers Weekly stated: "The author has done a good job making this complex and unusual man understandable and sympathetic."[2]
Reviews
[edit]- Review by Debbie Notkin (1986) in Locus, #301 February 1986
- Review by John Clute (1986) in Fantasy Review, June 1986
- Review by Orson Scott Card (1986) in Worlds of If, September-November 1986
- Review by Don D'Ammassa (1986) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #86 November 1986
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Caparula, J. Michael (1987). "Space/Fantasy Reader". Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer (81). Diverse Talents, Incorporated: 46.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Only Apparently Real by Paul Williams, Author Arbor House Publishing $7.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-87795-800-0". Publishersweekly.com. 1986-05-01. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
