菲利普·迪剋（1928-1982）

美國著名科幻作傢。他的一生雖然隻有短短的53年，卻創作瞭36部長篇小說和5部短篇小說集。

他隻得過一次雨果奬、一次約翰•坎貝爾紀念奬，卻被稱為“科幻作傢的科幻作傢”——因為他的創意和點子層齣不窮，成為無數科幻作傢藉鑒的創作素材庫。齣於同樣的原因，好萊塢也將迪剋的作品視為寶庫，計有11部他的小說13次被改編成影視作品，包括《銀翼殺手》《宇宙威龍》《少數派報告》《記憶裂痕》等經典，堪稱好萊塢科幻的靈感之源。

Philip K Dick's classic dystopian novel set in the future where the remaining human survivors on Earth must gamble for their future with aliens from Titan, one of the moons circling Saturn. Roaming the pristine landscape of Earth, cared for by machines and aliens, the few remaining humans alive since the war with Titan play Bluff, allowing them to win or lose property and also form new marriages in order to maximise the remote chance some pairings will produce a child. When Pete Garden, a particularly suicidal member of the Pretty Blue Fox game-playing group, loses his current wife and his deed to Berkeley, he stumbles upon a far bigger, more sinister version of the game. The telepathic, slug-like Vugs of Titan are the players and at stake is the Earth itself. The Game-Players of Titan is a brilliantly conceived vision of a future dystopia, full of imaginative detail, moments of pure humour and thought-provoking musings on the nature of perception, as the seemingly straightforward narrative soon turns into a tumultuous nightmare of delusion, precognition and conspiracy.