This one’s fairly faithful, and deals with some of the same themes as Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Dick adaptations have redeeming qualitiesa tribute to the writer and the passion of his fans. Impostor, a feature film based on the story, was released in 2002 starring Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe and Vincent D'Onofrio. Imposter, directed by Gary Fleder Based on: The 1953 short story Imposter Even the least of Philip K. The story was adapted in 1962 as an episode of the British science fiction television series Out of This World. Additionally, it touches on Nazi ideology. It revolves around the themes of reality and illusionary beliefs, as do many of Dick's works. The novel portrays a future totalitarian society apparently dominated by a matriarch, Nicole Thibodeaux. The android, now aware of the truth of its existence, proclaims 'If that's Olham, then I must be.' causing the bomb to detonate, the explosion visible even to the Outspacers of Alpha Centauri. Dick (1953) 'One of these days Im going to take time off,' Spence Olham said at first-meal. The Simulacra is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Unfortunately, the discovery of a bloody knife by the wreckage indicates to Olham that Peters was correct and that the real Spence Olham had already been killed. Out of options and with Major Peters' forces closing in, Olham decides to prove he is a human by finding the crashed Outspacer spaceship and recovering the android's body from the wreckage. Upon reaching Earth, Olham contacts his wife, Mary, but is soon ambushed by security officers waiting for him by his house. Olham, in an attempt to clear his name and prove his humanity, manages to escape his captors and return to Earth after they fail to kill him on the moon. The android is supposed to detonate a planet destroying bomb on the utterance of a deadly code phrase. The impostor's ship was damaged and has crashed just outside the city. Spence Olham, a member of a team designing an offensive weapon to destroy invading aliens known as the Outspacers, is confronted by a colleague and accused by security officer Major Peters of being an android impostor designed to sabotage Earth's defenses. It was first published in Astounding magazine in June, 1953. ' Impostor' is a science fiction short story by Philip K. For the Nathanael West story, see The Imposter (short story).

Impostor by Philip K. Dick