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In The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, set in a world where Germany and Japan won WWII, many of the characters are reading a fictional novel in which Germany and Japan lost WWII. What is the name of this fictional novel?
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What Philip K. Dick short story is about adults playing with children's dolls?
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is set mostly in what city?
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In "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later," Philip K. Dick linked actual events from his life to his novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said and what book in the Bible?
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America lost World War II: the westcoast is belaguered by the Japanese,
the east coast is occupied by German forces.
That is the premise of which novel by Philip K. Dick?
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While writing The Man in the High Castle, what method of divination did Philip K. Dick employ for plot ideas?
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Which film is not based on a story by Philip K. Dick?
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2409 times (34.5%) |
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Match the character with the novel: Richard Deckard.
   
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In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, what animal, owned by Rick, did Rachael throw off Rick's roof to its death?
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208 times (21.3%) |
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Which of the following films is NOT based on a story by Philip K. Dick?
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Which of the titles listed below is not the title of a story or novel by Philip K. Dick?Philip K. Dick
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In which of the Philip K. Dick novels listed below does the technology for traveling in time * not * exist?
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To which Shakespearean play does the title of Philip K. Dick's novel Time Out of Joint allude?
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What is the name of the religion depicted in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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What science-fiction author wrote VALIS after claiming he's been contacted by a "beam of pink light" from an artificially intelligent satellite?
   
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From which Philip K. Dick story is the film 'Blade Runner' adapted?
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In Philip K. Dick's classic SF novel, "The Man In The High Castle", to whom does the title refer?
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Which of the following works by Philip K. Dick has not been adapted into a movie?
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Which character did Philip K. Dick name after himself, in a sense?
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The following are the opening lines of which book? "Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K."
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Who wrote The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress?
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Which author had on the copyright page of one novel: ‘The opinions expressed in this book are not those of the author’?
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Who got a free waterbed from the bedding firm that swiped the idea from one of his novels?
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Which of the following short stories is NOT written by Philip K. Dick?
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If Camus' was first, and Greene's were third and tenth, while Bellow's was dangling, DeLillo's was falling and Dick's was in a high castle - whose was Thursday?
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In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, what is the name of the messianic figure whose experiences are shared through the black box?
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The Science Fiction Writer's Association awards the "SFWA Grand Master Award" to SF writers. The award has been renamed the "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award" after Damon Knight, founder of SFWA, passed away.
The award is never awarded posthumously... it must be given to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in SF or fantasy.
The following authors are deceased. Which TWO were not recognized as Grand Masters while alive, and will thus never receive the SFWA Grand Master Award?
Poul Anderson
Isaac Asimov
Alfred Bester
Arthur C. Clarke
Philip K. Dick
Robert A. Heinlein
Damon Knight
A.E. Van Vogt
Jack Williamson
Roger Zelazny
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SF novel Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner has been described as a "non-novel". Besides chapters with standard narrative, other chapters regularly appear which have no semblence of narrative. Entire chapters may be made up of tables or lists, songs or snippets of unrelated dialogue.
Which science fiction book below is MOST similar in that it also has a regular pattern of entire chapters with no standard narrative?
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From which science fiction novel is this first line taken?
"They caught the kid doing something disgusting out under the bleachers at the high school stadium..."
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In The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick what is the name of the popular and illegal fiction novel most of the main characters read?
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