Philip K. Dick Libros

Lo que comienza como una misión rutinaria contra los poderes psíquicos para Joe Chip y sus colegas se convierte en una pesadilla surrealista. Su jefe, Glen Runciter, muere en un atentado, ¿pero está realmente muerto? Chip recibe extrañas comunicaciones de Runciter: anuncios en televisión, grafitis en una pared de baño, y letras pequeñas en etiquetas. El término clave en estos mensajes es Ubik, aparentemente una especie de sustancia que contrarresta el creciente deterioro del mundo. Chip necesita urgentemente algo así, ya que a su alrededor las cosas comienzan a retroceder en el tiempo, culminando en Des Moines en 1939. Escrito hace casi cuarenta años, esta novela, considerada por muchos críticos como una de las grandes obras metafísicas de la literatura mundial, sigue manteniendo su inquietante fascinación.

Valis es una historia de detectives en que Amacaballo Fat es el loco héroe que busca desesperadamente a Dios, y Dios un ser desaparecido y responsable del crimen definitivo. Esta deslumbrante narración trata de teología, de comunicaciones extraterrestres y de las conspiraciones que amenazan a la humanidad en un mundo en que la realidad se revela a través de un rayo láser de color rosa.

Premio Hugo 1963 "Los caracteres de El hombre en el castillo no son sólo productos de la imaginación sino también manifestaciones de un sistema de fuerza en el que el I Ching obra como un nexo análogo a un polo magnético ... La mejor novela hasta la fecha del escritor de c-f más consistentemente brillante. Ante todo por la verosimilitud con que Dick ha elaborado una ingeniosa estructura básica (unos Estados Unidos derrotados en la segunda guerra mundial y que han sido divididos en tres partes: las costas del Atlántico y del Pacifico respectivamente ocupadas por alemanes y japoneses, y una zona tapón entre dos esferas de influencia); luego por la absoluta originalidad de la presunción básica--los alemanes ganaron la segunda guerra--aunque el Libro de los Cambios informa sin embargo que esta amarga derrota no ha ocurrido en el mundo real... " JOHN BRUNNER

Glenn Runciter ha muerto. ¿O lo han hecho todos los demás? Esta cáustica comedia metafísica de muerte y salvación (servida en cómodo aerosol) es un tour de force de amenaza paranoica y diversión sin trabas, en la que los fallecidos dan consejos comerciales, compran su siguiente encarnación, y corren continuamente el riesgo de morir de nuevo.

This Library of America volume features four captivating novels by Philip K. Dick: "The Man in the High Castle," "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," and "Ubik." Each work showcases Dick's unique and imaginative storytelling.

The final piece of work from one of the world's most visionary authors

This Halcyon Classics collection contains eleven short stories and novellas by acclaimed science fiction author Philip K. Dick. Dick (1928-1982) is best known for his novel DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? This novel was adapted for the big screen as BLADERUNNER.

This Book "The Gun" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

He fixed things-clocks, refrigerators, vid-senders and destinies. But he had no business in the future, where the calculators could not handle him. He was Earth's only hope-and its sure failure! A classic tale of intrigue and time travel. Philip K. Dick was one of science fiction's most influential author. He was a Hugo Award winner. More than a dozen of his novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen including Blade Runner, The Minority Report, Total Recall, The Adjustment Bureau, A Scanner Darkly, Screamers, and The Man in the High Castle.

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'Minority Report' and 'Sales Pitch', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20th century, which have had a massive impact on popular culture.'First time I have read Philip K. Dick and I thoroughly enjoyed his stories and the suspense that he puts into them' Goodreads reviewer, 'Most of the stories had something to say about society. It was interesting to see how 50 years later so many of the fears and criticism was still relevant. Highly recommended' Goodreads reviewer, 'Dick's stories are often surprising and spin a captivating yarn, but they are also teeming with fascinating ideas which ensure their ability to age well and keep modern readers interested' Goodreads reviewer, 'Each tale is filled with twists and turns, and it's a total pageturner' Goodreads reviewer,

The fifth and final part of the complete collected stories shows Philip K. Dick at the very height of his outstanding powers. The twenty-five tales were written between 1963 and 1981, just a few months before he died, and include two stories which have been turned into box office smashes: the title story, filmed as Total Recall, and "The Little Black Box", which grew into his masterpiece Blade Runner.

The third volume in a series of five collections of short stories from one of the most original thinkers in the genre.

This second volume of collected work comprises 27 short stories, such as "Imposter", where a man is accused of being an alien spy and finds his whole identity called into question. By the author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Includes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next “More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people’s minds.” —The Wall Street Journal The Philip K. Dick Reader Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick’s works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This collection includes some of Dick’s earliest short and medium-length fiction, including We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), Second Variety (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), Paycheck, The Minority Report, and twenty more.

Featuring an extensive anthology of one hundred stories, this collection showcases over three hundred thousand words from renowned authors in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Readers can immerse themselves in a diverse range of narratives, offering hours of captivating entertainment and a glimpse into the imaginative realms crafted by some of the genre's greatest writers.

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.

The Father-thing contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, Solar Lottery. The stories are a mix of previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces

A matchless display of Philip K. Dick's quirky, humorous, idiosyncratically philosophical world view. With one exception, all the stories of this volume were written over a nine-month period between 1951 and 1952, when Dick was making his first impact as a writer.

Philip K. Dick's influence on science fiction is profound, shaping the genre in the latter half of the twentieth century much like Kafka did earlier. His work explores complex themes of reality, identity, and consciousness, often questioning the nature of existence and the human experience. Renowned for his imaginative storytelling and philosophical depth, Dick's narratives challenge readers to confront their perceptions of reality, making him a pivotal figure in modern literature.

The first of a three-book series on Dick based on a series of interviews with Dick in 1981 by Rickman. Dick discusses his writing techniques, his books, Bladerunner, and the work of other writers. Appendices include a checklist of books by and about Dick and the texts of two Dick letters.

The book highlights the enduring significance of its narrative, ensuring its legacy through modern reformatting and design. By republishing in a clear and readable format, it aims to preserve the original work for both contemporary and future readers, emphasizing the importance of maintaining literary history.

The narrative revolves around Joe Chip and his colleagues who survive an explosion at a moon base, leading to a disorienting exploration of reality and existence. As they grapple with the possibility that they might be dead and that their colleague, Glen Runciter, may have survived, the story delves into themes of identity and perception. Blending elements of space opera with existential horror, the plot creates a haunting atmosphere that leaves readers questioning the nature of reality and their own consciousness.

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' and 'The Electric Ant', as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20th century, which have had a massive impact on popular culture.'A great collection, showcasing Dick's evolution' Goodreads reviewer, 'my reason for giving the book a five-star rating has to do with my emotional state I felt when I closed the last page. I feel that I delved into a more extensive realm of PKD's mind by reading this collection' Goodreads reviewer, 'An amazing collection of downright bizarre fiction. So many excellent stories that it would be hard to pick a favorite' Goodreads reviewer,

Based on the stories contained in this volume, the ten-part anthology series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander) and Michael Dinner (Justified, Masters of Sex), with Oscar nominated Bryan Cranston (Trumbo, Breaking Bad) both executive producing and appearing in the series. Each episode will be a sharp, thrilling standalone drama adapted and contemporised for global audiences by a creative team of British and American writers. The series will both illustrate Philip K. Dick's prophetic vision and celebrate the enduring appeal of the prized Sci-Fi novelist's work. Other guest stars include Janelle Morae, Anna paquin, Timothy Spall and Benedict Wong. The ten stories included are: THE HANGING STANGER, THE COMMUTER, THE FATHER-THING, EXHIBIT PIECE, IMPOSSIBLE PLANET, SALES PITCH, FOSTER YOU'RE DEAD, THE HOOD MAKER, HOLY QUARREL, IF THERE WERE NO BENNY CEMOLI, AUTOFAC and HUMAN IS

A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without knowing what is happening to him, he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.Cover illustration: Chris Moore

The very best short fiction from the man whose stories are dominating Hollywood's creative output 25 years after his death.

An electric collection of interviews—including the first and the last—with one of the 20th century's most prolific, influential, and dazzlingly original writers of science fiction Long before Ridley Scott transformed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick was banging away at his typewriter in relative obscurity, ostracized by the literary establishment. Today he is widely considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. These interviews reveal a man plagued by bouts of manic paranoia and failed suicide attempts; a career fuelled by alcohol, amphetamines, and mystical inspiration; and, above all, a magnificent and generous imagination at work.

By the author of MINORITY REPORT and BLADE RUNNER.

NB: There are two stories fewer in this edition (13 stories) than in the Gregg Press edition (15 stories).Short story collection, comprising:Colony;Impostor;Expendable;Planet for Transients;Prominent Author;The Builder;The Impossible Planet;The Indefatigable Frog;The Turning Wheel;Progeny;Upon the Dull Earth;The Cookie Lady;Exhibit Piece.

>On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life. Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.

En el año 2021 la guerra mundial ha exterminado a millones de personas. Los supervivientes codician cualquier criatura viva, y aquellos que no pueden permitirse pagar por ellas se ven obligados a adquirir réplicas increíblemente realistas. Las empresas fabrican incluso seres humanos. Rick Deckard es un cazarrecompensas cuyo trabajo es encontrar androides rebeldes y retirarlos, pero la tarea no será tan sencilla cuando tenga que enfrentarse a los nuevos modelos Nexus-6, prácticamente indistinguibles de los seres humanos.

An interstellar traveller is tormented to the point of insanity by a shipboard computer programmed to entertain him with incidents from his past... The victim of a space accident is kept alive by aliens in order to examine her religious beliefs... A lonely colonist on a desolate world discovers that his nearest neighbour is dying of cancer — and overcomes his revulsion in order to nurse her... This stunning posthumous collection of stories by the greatest writer ever to work in SF also contains a fascinating essay in which Philip K. Dick meditates on the connections between his life and work. Contents: - Introduction: How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later by Philip K. Dick - The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1954) - Explorers We (1959) - Holy Quarrel (1966) - What'll We Do with Ragland Park? (1963) - Strange Memories of Death (1984) - The Alien Mind (1981) - The Exit Door Leads In (1979) - Chains of Air, Web of Aether (1980) - Rautavaara's Case (1980) - I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (1980, variant of Frozen Journey) Front cover illustration by Chriss Foss

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress - and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ.

Contacted by starmen of similar racial stock who have a greatly advanced, galactic society, a united Earth becomes their ally in a lengthy war with the Reegs, blue, six-limbed aliens with no vocal chords. This is the story of how Earth chose the wrong ally.

A construction worker discovers he is actually a secret agent and travels to Mars to uncover his true identity and why his memory was erased.

"This collection brings together five stories which explores a range of perspectives within the genre of science fiction. From space travel to time travel, scientific experiments and teleportation, these stories will fascinate and delight fans of science fiction everywhere.CONTENTS:IntroductionUsing a dictionaryThe Genre of Science FictionWe Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Phillip K DickA Sound of Thunder by Ray BradburyTravel By Wire by Arthur C ClarkeThe Martian Odyssey by Stanle

Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day - and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life - indeed his whole world - is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world like, and what is he actually doing every day when he thinks he is guessing 'Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next?'

What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? --P. [4] of cover

World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fifteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elite corps of expert hoaxers preserve the lie.Cover Illustration: Chris Moore

As America gasps in a stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars. Will the agents of ominiscent Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the tactics of President Freemont extend the grip?

Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.

Philip K. Dick creates a new world with a few words. With terrifying logic and brilliant imagination he compels you to enter a universe of unpredictable but highly credible situations. And each situation has a profound significance for Mankind...These stories MAY change the way you look at your own world. THEY WILL CERTAINLY INTRIGUE, DISTURB--AND FRIGHTEN--YOU.Comprising:Nanny;The Turning Wheel;The Defenders;Adjustment Team;Psi-Man (Psi-Man Heal My Child!);The Commuter;A Present for Pat;Breakfast at Twilight;Shell Game.

On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union--suspect that Manfred's disorder  may be a window into the future. In Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.

Early Philip K. Dick, exhibiting all the originality which he became so justly famed for.

PAYCHECK, originally written as a short story by Philip K. Dick and first published in 1953, centres on an electrician who wakes up to discover his employer has erased his memory of the past two years -- as a security measure. When he tries to collect his paycheck, he finds he has previously signed a release replacing the money with a bag of random objects. Previous film adaptations of Dick's short stories have included the box office smash hits MINORITY REPORT, TOTAL RECALL and BLADE RUNNER, released shortly after Dick died in 1982.

Here's a chance to read not just one but fifteen stories created by one of the most popular science fiction writers of today. This anthology is full of both new and classic ideas, brimming over with wit and the author's natural sense of fun.lf you want to learn about The Golden Man - totally irresistible to women, of the secret life of wub fur, of chameleon-like aliens called fnools, and a great deal more, read on...Contents:- Foreword by Mark Hurst- Introduction by Philip K. Dick- The Golden Man (1954)- Return Match (1967)- The King of the Elves (1953)- The Mold of Yancy (1955)- Not By Its Cover (1968)- The Little Black Box (1964)- The Unreconstructed M (1957)- The War with the Fnools (1964)- The Last of the Masters (1954)- Meddler (1954)- A Game of Unchance (1964)- Sales Pitch (1954)- Precious Artifact (1964)- Small Town (1954)- The Pre-Persons (1974)- Story Notes by Philip K. Dick- Afterword by Philip K. DickFront cover illustration by Richard Sparks

The story of paranoia and the political domination after a world thermonuclear war.

"The fourth volume of the definitive five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth century's greatest sf author covers a wide span, from late 1954 through to 1963. Those were the years during began writing novels prollfically and his short story output lessened."--Back cover.

In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction, Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical. Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He's also lost his wife, but he'll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It's all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically and terminally--because Pete Garden will be playing his next game against an opponent who isn't even human, for stakes that are a lot higher than Berkeley.

When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they'll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuck's new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to such a darkly hilarious pass is the subject of Clans of the Alphane Moon, an astutely shrewd and acerbic tale that blurs all conventional distinctions between sanity and madness.

An artist searches for God in Philip K. Dick's collaboration with Roger Zelazny.

When a telescope's particle light beam tears loose from its restraining guides, slicing across the paths of eight visitors to an observatory, this octet enters into a fantastic odyssey that exposes their innermost hopes, terrifying fears and028501ant dreams.

An SF classic from its most important 20th century practitioner

'An elusive and incomparable artist' Ursula K. Le Guin

A few years from now the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn't seem possible, does it? Welcome to the world of Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist.

Jack Isidore, a young man living with his sister and her family in California, joins a UFO group that believes the world will end on April 23, 1959.

In a post-apocalyptic world, a diverse cast of characters faces a brewing revolution. Among them are a power-hungry fascist, a telepathic composer, a commanding First Lady, and the final practicing therapist. Tensions rise as an underclass, driven by the enigmatic Loony Luke and his persuasive alien companion, starts to challenge the status quo. The interplay of their ambitions and the looming threat of uprising creates a gripping narrative filled with intrigue and complex relationships.

Making an animatronic replica of Abraham Lincoln has never been easier. Finding someone to buy it is the hard part. Louis Rosen's firm, the Frauenzimmer Piano Company, builds electronic organs and upright pianos. Deciding to expand the business the firm get ambitious, building exact reconstructions of famous personalities. Sam K. Barrows, a lunar real estate tycoon wants to repopulate the moon with their creations, and he's the only one rich enough to buy them. As the Lincoln model develops a fault and Rosen begins to fall for the daughter of his business partner, things go from bad to worse and his mental health rapidly begins to deteriorate. 'We Can Build You' bears striking similarities in Dick's later novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' which was later transformed into Ridley Scott's extraordinary science fiction film classic 'Bladerunner'.

Set in a future where a supercomputer named Vulcan governs global peace following devastating wars, the story explores the tension between technology and humanity. As some individuals resist being sidelined by the machine and others question its god-like authority, a functionary races against time to avert impending conflict. However, Vulcan harbors its own agenda, raising existential questions about its role and the fate of humanity in a world on the brink of chaos.

Time runs backwards in the "Counter-Clock World". Old people emerge from their graves, grow to middle age, youth, adolescence and childhood, to be finally unborn in their mothers' wombs.

Nick has a problem. He has a cat named Horace, and cats are quite illegal on Earth. In fact all pets are illegal on Earth, and Horace has been reported to the anti-pet man. The only way for Nick and his family to keep Horace is to emigrate to Plowman’s Planet.Little did they know that, rather than the pastoral paradise Nick’s father envisioned, they would land in the middle of a planetwide war against an entity known as Glimmung, a conflict in which Nick and Horace would play a pivotal role.Nick and the Glimmung is Philip K. Dick’s sole surviving young adult novel. Written in 1966, it shares elements with his novel Galactic Pot-Healer and is available for the first time in the U.S, and the first time anywhere in twenty years.

Written in the late 1950s but unpublished until after his death, this is one of Dick's greatest realistic novels When Roger and Virginia Lindhal enroll their son Gregg in Mrs Alt's Los Padres Valley School in the mountains of Southern California, their marriage is already in deep trouble. Then the Lindhals meet Chic and Liz Bonner, whose two sons also board at Mrs Alt's school.The meeting is a catalyst for a complicated series of emotions and traumas, set against the backdrop of suburban Los Angeles in the early 1950s. As Roger, Virginia, Chic and Liz orbit each other in ever-decaying circles, their lives threaten to run out of control.This is a realistic novel filled with details of everyday life and skilfully told from three points of view. It is powerful, eloquent, and gripping.Winner of both the HUGO and JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDs for BEST NOVEL, Philip K. Dick is widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day. The object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.

Set in a future where death is celebrated, the narrative follows a time-traveling doctor on a mission to rescue a critically injured leader of the resistance. The story explores themes of mortality, sacrifice, and the value of life against a backdrop of societal acceptance of death. As the doctor navigates the complexities of time travel, they face moral dilemmas and the challenges of altering fate to protect a pivotal figure in the fight for survival.

'An elusive and incomparable artist' Ursula K. Le Guin

This is the British paperback edition of this novel. Dick first wrote this book in the 1950's, but it remained unplublished until 1988. "The Broken Bubble is set in San Francisco in 1956 and focuses on four local radio DJ Jim Briskin, his ex-wife Patricia Gray, and a young married couple, Art and Rachael Emmanuel, who are fans of Briskin's. Briskin is suspended from his job when he refuses to read a particularly repellent commercial, and Art becomes mixed up with an absurd group of would-be revolutionaries, but the novel primarily concerns the shifting relationships between Jim and Pat and Art and Rachael as they become entangled, and not quite disentangled, seeking only - in typical Dick fashion - to live more-or-Iess happily, if not ever after, then at least for a while. With its acutely-observed characters and sympathetic black comedy, The Broken Bubble is another highly enjoyable novel."

One of Dick's earlier works, The Cosmic Puppets is his only pure fantasy novel.

Scalding sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, "The Zap Gun"is Dick's remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions - Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo even as he knows she's trying to kill him.

Small town America tears itself apart in this realist novel from one of the greats of science fiction.

"This is the sixth mainstream novel by the late science fiction writer to be brought into print, and it is becoming increasingly clear that he is one of the most compelling chroniclers of life and love in 1950s California that we have had. This novel concerns Mary Ann Reynolds, a strong-willed but frightened woman of 20 who has difficulty giving and accepting love despite her best intentions. It also profiles the men who care for her, describing her troubled affairs with a self-involved black lounge singer and with a warm, intelligent record-store owner and music lover nearly 40 years her senior. Mary Ann's incresing self-awareness and consequent desperation are beautifully delineated. Dick has brought the people and ambience of small-town California vividly to life in this bitter-sweet story." --Publishers Weekly "There are tough, vivid portrayals throughout... The narrative voice is clear and sensitive, forcing sympathies in unlikely places" --New York Times Book Review Front cover illustration by Ean Taylor

Set in San Francisco in the late 1950s, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate salesmen: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom Philip K. Dick always reserved his greatest sympathy. Jim Fergesson is an elderly garage owner with a heart condition, who is about to retire; Al Miller is a somewhat feckless mechanic who sublets part of Jim's lot and finds his livelihood threatened by the decision to sell; Chris Harman is a record-company owner who for years has relied on Fergesson to maintain his cars. When Harman hears of Fergesson's impending retirement he tips him off to what he says is a cast-iron business proposition: a development in nearby Marin County with an opening for a garage. Al Miller is convinced that Harman is a crook, out to fleece Fergesson of his life's savings. As much as he resents Fergesson he can't bear to see it happen and--denying to himself all the time what he is doing--he sets out to thwart Harman.

Stuart Hadley is a radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement, but he still feels unfulfilled. Something is missing from his life. Hadley is a restless young man—an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, and then with an affair, and finally with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working, and it is driving him crazy. Voices from the Street is the story of Hadley's descent into depression and madness, and his emergence out the other side.

The last book which Philip K. Dick worked on, brilliant, clever and complex.

Gather Yourselves Together is one of Philip K. Dick’s earliest novels, written when he was just twenty-four years old. It tells the story of three Americans left behind in China by their employer, biding their time as the Communists advance. As they while away the days, both the young and naïve Carl Fitter and the older and worldly Verne Tildon vie for the affections of Barbara Mahler, a woman who may not be so tough-as-nails as she acts. But Carl’s innocence and Verne’s boorishness could end up driving Barbara away from both.

In a post-holocaust New York governed by oppressively rigid laws on morality and patrolled by mobile, miniature robots that monitor the behavior of every citizen, Allen Purcell is offered a high-profile job as guardian of public ethics, in which position he would have the power to transform society.

Featuring 42 stories and one novel, this extensive anthology explores the theme of Mars and its inhabitants through the works of renowned science fiction authors. It begins with Roger Zelazny's acclaimed "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" and concludes with Allen Steele's award-winning "Emperor from Mars." This collection showcases a diverse range of classic tales, highlighting the imaginative and often philosophical interpretations of Martian life and landscapes, making it a treasure for fans of the genre.