Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining authors of the last half of the 20th century, and the increasing respect and interest that his fiction and films have generated since the 1982 release of "Blade Runner" now necessitate a comprehensive assessment of these films. "Future Imperfect" is the only work to examine the cinematic adaptations of Dick's work in their entirety. Not all cinematic adaptations of Dick's works have been equally successful, but they have all made a similar effort to capture his evocative, paranoid, and compassionate view of humanity's precarious place in a fallen world, where technology, bureaucracy, and political chicanery threaten both body and mind. Vest seeks here to answer the question of how filmmakers as diverse as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, and Richard Linklater have each, in their turn, expanded, extrapolated, and diverged from Dick's fiction in order to translate Dick's powerful and challenging insights onto the screen in a visual and yet still literary form. Students and general readers interested in science-fiction literature and film will find this a valuable contribution, as will film enthusiasts interested in film adaptation. The book also includes some of the more extended criticism on several seminal science fiction films.