Philip K. Dick
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Combining political intrigue, time travel, family drama, and all the perils that come with being the first at anything, Hugo Award—winning author Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip follows a group of exiled colonists on Mars and the ten-year-old psychic among them, a boy so powerful he not only looks into the future but can send people there.
On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land before the UN develops...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"'A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius.'--Jonathan Lethem. Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative...
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Pub. Date
[ñ990]
Description
Collects three novels grappling with the question "What is reality?" In VALIS, a half-mad mystic searches for the Vast Active Living Intelligence System. In The Divine Invasion, Emmanuel, the son of God and a woman named Rybys, solves the puzzle of his own existence. In The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, a bishop seeks belief through reason at any cost, including his own sanity.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Stuart Hadley is a young man born to privilege; he is handsome and educated; his pregnant wife is devoted to him; he has worked his way up from salesman to manager of a television and radio shop, but he wants more. The more he wants is not clear, even to him, and his existential crisis involves him with a shady, quasi-religious sect, the Society of the Watchmen of Jesus, led by a charismatic evangelist. Stuart's flirtation with the movement soon leads...
26) Minority report
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
A special unit of police have developed a successful way to catch criminals before they commit their crimes.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
In the world of "The Minority Report, " Commissioner John Anderton uses "precogs"--people with the power to see into the future--to identify criminals before they can do any harm. All goes well until he, himself, is identified as the next criminal. A film version of the book, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise--is set to be released summer 2002.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
In 1950s San Francisco, as Jim Ferguson, an elderly garage owner with a heart condition prepares to retire and sell his business, he is offered the deal of a lifetime by record-company owner Chris Harman, but Al Miller, a somewhat irresponsible mechanic who works in Jims Garage, believes that Harman is a crook and sets out to protect his mentor.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Philip K. Dick: (1928-1982) was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. The five novels collected in this volume - a successor to Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s - Offer an overview of the range of this science-fiction master." "Martian Time-Slip (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red Planet where the...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"A Maze of Death" (1970), is a thriller about a group of colonists forced to survive on a hostile new planet, and forced to not only confront one another, but also the nature of God. "VALIS" (1981) is the story of a man confronting a Vast Active Living Intelligence System. "The Divine Invasion" (1981) features an off-world colonist who is sent back to Earth, and into the middle of an apocalyptic war between Good and Evil, by a local alien. "The Transmigration...
39) Vintage PKD
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
A master of science fiction, a voice of the changing counterculture, and a genuine visionary, Philip K. Dick wrote about reality, entropy, deception, and the plight of being alive in the modern world. Through his remarkable career Dick has established himself as a writer of the first order and his dreams of the future have proven to be eerily prophetic and even more prescient than when he wrote them.