Philip K Dick :: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale :: Alternate Version :: Audiobook
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"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" is a short story by Philip K. Dick first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in April 1966. It features a melding of reality, false memory, and real memory. The story has been the subject of two film adaptations, 1990's Total Recall, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the story's protagonist; and 2012's same-titled with Colin Farrell in a similar role.
Douglas Quail, a simple and ordinary clerk, wishes to visit Mars. Unable to afford it, he visits a company, REKAL (pronounced "recall") Incorporated, which promises to implant an "extra-factual memory" of a trip to Mars as a secret agent. The procedure involves administration of narkidrine, a sedative and truth drug, which causes Quail to remember and reveal that he actually did go to Mars as a secret government agent. His conscious memories of the trip have been erased, but his initial desire to sign up for the trip cannot be removed. The REKAL staff quickly get Quail out of their office without implanting anything, but his real memories are now returning slowly. At home, he finds physical evidence to support his trip but also remembers that he attended REKAL. This conflict causes him to angrily return for a refund, which he is given.
When two police officers show up to kill him, Quail discovers that his former handlers have been reading his thoughts by means of an implanted device that was used to communicate with him during his mission on Mars. As more memories return, he realizes that he was an assassin for the government, but also remembers how to disarm the cops and escape. Since he can be tracked by the device, this cannot last for long. He thus makes a deal for the memory of his Mars mission to be replaced by a false memory of his deepest fantasy as analyzed by psychiatrists, in order to prevent any further desires to visit REKAL. He is sent back to REKAL for the procedure, but under the narkidrine, he reveals that the memories they are about to implant are real -- that aliens visited him when he was nine and were so touched by his kindness and compassion that they decided to postpone their invasion until his death. By simply remaining alive, he is the most important person on Earth, and the government is now unable to kill him.
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Thank you for posting all these wonderfull audiobooks.
@philipkdickaudiobook
6 жыл бұрын
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I read this a couple of years ago. It was in one of his short story books. I forget which one. I loved the twist at the end; it made me laugh.
his work is awesome
8yrs and still going, thank you brother.....
it's way ahead of his time
this guy had wonderful ideas
@thenextshenanigantownandth4393
5 жыл бұрын
Hey old comment, but if you like this you should check out Alfred Bester, he's one of philip k dicks big influences.
Excellent, I wish I had this gift of writing stories.
@TheAuroraamor1
3 жыл бұрын
Right
@cheyennesmith2673
7 ай бұрын
Everyone can write ✍️, even if it's not as subtle, or little to no foreshadowing, no symbolism found in manuscripts. You can always write and that's what it's about. Keep writing and you will have a story, one day I'm sure, better than anything philip k. Dick has ever wrote... maybe besides A Darkly Scanner... and The Man in the High Tower.... okay, one more. Flow my tears the Policeman said. I'm done 😅😂
This is my favourite version, heard it years ago, love the intro music, sound scapes of the future.
Part of me likes to think that this story and Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep takes place in the same universe.
His stories were turned into films and TV that grossed $1 Billion. The author was poor his whole life. If his heirs didn't get a percentage its an outrage.
@philipkdickaudiobook
6 жыл бұрын
You can support PKD by going out and buying his books.
@chrisrebar2381
5 жыл бұрын
From what I have read he wasn't exactly poor, blew a lot on ket and other drugs - don't have a problem with that, and I certainly am not in anyway supporting the scumbags in Hollywood, just saying that he wasn't poor and did a whole load of things in his life that could of maybe handled a little differently
@mattscherneck8103
5 жыл бұрын
I love his work w all my heart
@Badcrow7713
4 жыл бұрын
His works have provided wealth and security to his family with careful management and licensing of the material
@PhoenixWakeStudios
4 жыл бұрын
He also died before Blade Runner was even released, so that probably explains a bit of why he didn't see as much of the money from the movies that were adapted from his work -- he never was around to collect.
awesome. ... incredible author, one of the best of the genre ...
@thedoncrazephaze5375
6 жыл бұрын
phillip k dick himself loved my comment...i. knew he was still alive!!!😁 thx4 these videos, truly one of the best, arthur c clarke is my only 1 ranked above him. although PKD short stories are usually better, Imao.
@bobaldo2339
6 жыл бұрын
The best by far.
WOW. Brilliant audiobook.
I forgot this ending, having watched it so many times. Great narration!
My favorite story is “Decending”. It’s in the collection called: “Fun with your new head”.
@philipkdickaudiobook
3 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite pieces that I wrote.
The film 'Total recall' is based on this story I believe
An iconic sci-fi story with an amazing adaptation.
Great story - great reading!
@philipkdickaudiobook
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
Superb!
Best work ever
Love the twist at the end
there is nine hundred and sixty nine things that everyman and women should know and have.
He looks a little like Jose Mourinho judging by that drawing!
Thank You Sir !
best work
See ya at the party Richter!
his best work I wonder where did he get the ideas to write these stories
@frederickallgood801
8 жыл бұрын
Best science fiction writer ever
@frederickallgood801
8 жыл бұрын
God gave him the idea
@teenagewastelandmusic4774
3 жыл бұрын
His dreams an other crazy versions
@peng9179
2 жыл бұрын
KZread search Philip K Dick interviews.
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Well I gotta hand it to you "It's the best mind fuck yet ever."
can you please explain the relation of this alternate version to the other audiobook of the story you have uploaded? this version has a good 20 minutes on the other; did dick rewrite the story?
@greigpil9835
9 жыл бұрын
I've only listened to the first 20 seconds of this so far; but this 'alternate' version would appear to be a reading of the actual story as it was published in 'The Philip K. Dick Reader' (the only published instance I have read). The other audio book on this channel I didn't recognise at all and after the first few lines were read I started looking for another, thankfully also on this channel.
@michaelledford4751
3 жыл бұрын
I cant say for sure but i vividly remember many of the great sci-fi writers of the 1950s & 60s wrote multiple versions of the same stories so their work could be published in the many competing sci-fi magazines of the era ,many of Mr Dicks stories were also turned into radio serial storys with a 30 minute format such as X Minus One .
just like in the Running Man, the protagonist seems like anything but Arnold Schwarzenegger. More like a James Woods kinda guy, a plain guy, not a walking muscle machine.
i would love to make a 8 part series aduptation set in around the 2030s but not with all the future jazz but to modernize it like spaceX trips to mars but there is a resistance on the planer they landed there shortly after the fusion revolution creation the partical highway between the planets. the characters i would def go for a more sterile new commer aproch so i could select the Clerk type job for Quale and prob change the names to make it an every man story but it would End with a what if wake up in the rekal chair but there are sub plots i want to try and actually expand it as a series with each one being a new telling of a the same narative but with diffrent era themes
@KasumiRINA
Жыл бұрын
A futuristic dystopia where billionaries set up personal colonies to exploit would be really on point, though I don't know who would finance and produce it, lol. And revolution on Mars is a recurring theme, remember the game series Red Faction? Can pull parts from there and from this story and make something that would be an opposite to the Martian, where they idealize life as a colonist probably going insane in years of cold isolation.
Superbly narrated. Yes! I am a "dickhead" !
"alternative version" ?
My Favourite sci fi Writer 🩷🩷🪷. 💕. 🔑. 🕉️. 🩷. 🖐️. 🔥🔥
good story
I‘ll be back!
Not bad. I enjoyed this story.
@MargaritaMagdalena
2 жыл бұрын
I loved it.
very metaphysical
Who is the narrator?
Cool
so much better than the movie
The basis for total recall
What makes this one different?
this book is 7 hours plus
Matthew modine is the narrator
How is this an alternate version?
Where’s Johnny Cab in 📕?
Total Recall :D
i want to be a science fiction writer
@Welther47
7 жыл бұрын
stop dreaming and just start writing. Its just work
@johndoe-io8fh
6 жыл бұрын
you have my permission!
@99ize18
6 жыл бұрын
WAKE UP. It's NOT "fiction". It's truth.
@iwritesetroe3013
4 жыл бұрын
Your gay
so no alien with 3 tubes? got it
Anyone know how this is an “alternate version”?
@papertiger9845
6 жыл бұрын
onebay1 thats what i was wondering. Did u ever find out??
@onebay1
6 жыл бұрын
LOSTCHILD SAB Not yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@sellersgarner
4 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking that is referring to another audio version from the first...? I don't think it's a different text or anything of that sort.
How the hell he gonna see some protozoa with the naked eye?
@apex2000
3 жыл бұрын
There is 1 IRL protozoan that can just reach size large enough to see. Lol but yeah
My name is not QUAID!!!!!!!!!
@angelg6565
6 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha.... You think this is the real Quaid... it is!
@Demonmixer
5 жыл бұрын
Mr Quaid, please try to calm down...
They could've done a new movie that sticks closer to the source material, and Colin Farrell is a brilliant actor, "In Bruges" is him at his absolute best, he could've been an excellent Douglas Quail in a more grounded, thoughtful take of this story. Such a shame the remake of "Total Recall" was just a poorly written cashgrab that exploited the nostalgia of the 1990 movie and ripped off visuals from "Blade Runner" and "Minority Report" with extra lens flare instead of being more different and good on its own. Just call it "Rekall Inc." and do a damn good adaptation and movie. It was just pathetic to see Farrell running around repeating Arnold's lines in a lamer way and the film redoing moments from the 1990 film in a castrated PG-13 filter when they could've come up with their own stuff, what a waste.
@Warp75
3 жыл бұрын
That remake was garbage but I expected it to be garbage so I wasn’t too bothered. I only saw it once & once only.
@KasumiRINA
Жыл бұрын
My sentiment exactly, original movie was perfect for what it is, and didn't need a remake, instead they should have made another adaptation of the original story. Only good thing about remake was Kate Beckinsale, she's always good... and a few action sequences.
Having seen the movie 100 times, “Quail” is really bothering me lol
"Total Recall"
@TheAuroraamor1
3 жыл бұрын
😁😁😁😍😍😍😘😘😘😆😆😆😆😉
@ 13:09 "kibbutzim".
Oh how long to find an 😢😮😅😊😂🎉
MORE PROOF OF SIMULATION THEORY: MY gf just walked into the room and said they found a lake on Mars JUST as the character said Mars. 7/26/2018
@rtelkin2194
4 жыл бұрын
You're almost right - you're actually a character in a fiction I'm writing.
total recall 2112
total recall 2012 was a better version
@coachb2766
5 жыл бұрын
Frederick Allgood no it wasn't
@thecrimsonghostakathefiend7508
5 жыл бұрын
Agreed , but the 80s one always has a place in my heart .
@charlesachurch7265
5 жыл бұрын
Stop moaning . At least somebody narrated this for our delectation. We are spoilt children , but at least,accept we are and appreciate the gifts ,
@thecrimsonghostakathefiend7508
5 жыл бұрын
@@charlesachurch7265 whose moaning ?
@Warp75
3 жыл бұрын
Antonio Margheriti 1990
By the way, blade runner 2049 is total garbage and not related to anything dick wrote.
Rather read it for myself.
@johnmiller7453
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for telling us all about it.