Margins
Paycheck et autres récits
2004
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Ingénieur de réputation mondiale, Michael Jennings travaille sur des projets top secrets commandités par des sociétés de haute technologie. À l'issue de chaque mission, sa mémoire à court terme est effacée pour l'empêcher de divulger la moindre information confidentielle. Puis un chèque susbstantiel lui est remis. Mais cette fois, l'enveloppe ne contient pas d'argent, juste quelques objets hétéroclites et sans valeur ; et à en croire Rethrick, son dernier employeur, Jennings aurait lui-même renoncé par avance à ses honoraires habituels. Harcelé par un ennemi sans visage, Jennings n'a que quelques heures pour recomposer le puzzle de sa vie et découvrir ce qui se cache derrière les murs de Rethrick Corporation... Contient : • « La Clause de salaire » (Paycheck, 1953) • « Nanny » (Nanny, 1955) • « Le Monde de Jon » (Jon's World, 1954), • « Petit déjeuner au crépuscule » (Breakfast at Twilight, 1954) • « Une petite ville » (Small Town, 1954) • « Le Père truqué » (The Father-Thing, 1954) • « Là où il y a de l'hygiène… » (The Chromium Fence, 1955) • « Autofab » (Autofac, 1955) • « Au temps de Poupée Pat » (The Days of Perky Pat, 1963) • « Le Suppléant » (Top Stand-By Job / Stand-By, 1963) • « Un p'tit quelque chose pour nous, les temponautes ! » (A Little Something for Us Tempunauts, 1974) • « Les Pré-personnes » (The Pre-Persons, 1974)

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Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
Author · 264 books

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.

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