Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.
Lies, Inc.
Philip K. Dick
A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novella The Unteleported Man, which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In Lies, Inc., fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognize his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring of reality and illusion. This publication marks its first complete appearance in the United States.In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into cramed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never comeback. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a scapeship on the eighteen-year journey there to see if anyone wants to return.
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 4: The Minority Report
Philip K. Dick
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.
This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964.
"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection" -- Kirkus
"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring". -- The Washington Post
"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds". -- Wall Street Journal
Volume 4/5. Includes stories from 1954-1964:
- Autofac (1955)
- Service Call (1955)
- Captive Market (1955)
- The Mold of Yancy (1955)
- The Minority Report (1956)
- Recall Mechanism (1959)
- The Unreconstructed M (1957)
- Explorers We (1959)
- War Game (1959)
- If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1963)
- Novelty Act (1964)
- Waterspider (1964)
- What the Dead Men Say (1964)
- Orpheus with Clay Feet (1987)
- The Days of Perky Pat (1963)
- Stand-By (1963)
- What'll We Do with Ragland Park? (1963)
- Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964)Other editions of this volume have the same stories, and were published under these titles:
- The Days of Perky Pat,
- The Minority Report,
- The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories.
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to the streets of LA. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, causing, first, disorientation and then complete and irreversible brain damage.
The undercover narcotics agent who calls himself Bob Arctor is desperate to discover the ultimate source of supply. But to find any kind of lead he has to pose as a user and, inevitably, without realising what is happening, Arctor is soon as addicted as the junkies he works among...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto en una explosión organizada por los competidores de Runciter. De hecho, sus empleados asisten a un funeral. Pero durante el duelo comienzan a recibir mensajes descorcentantes, e incluso morbosos, de su jefe. Y el mundo a su alrededor comienza a desmoronarse de un modo que sugiere que a ellos tampoco les queda mucho tiempo.
Esta mordaz comedia metafísica de muerte y salvación (que podrá llevar un cómodo envase) es un tour de force de amenaza paranoica y comedia absurda, en la cual los muertos ofrecen consejos comerciales, compran su siguiente reencarnación y corren el riesgo continuo de volver a morir.
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war — and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.
VALIS
Philip K. Dick
VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick
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
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Philip K. Dick
Jason Taverner woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been the top-rated television star with millions of devoted watchers. The next day he was just an unidentified walking object, whose face nobody recognised, of whom no one had heard, and without the I.D. papers required in that near future.
When he finally found a man who would agree to counterfeiting such cards for him, that man turned out to be a police informer. And then Taverner found out not only what it was like to be a nobody but also to be hunted by the whole apparatus of society.
It was obvious that in some way Taverner had become the pea in in some sort of cosmic shell game - but how? And why?
Philip K. Dick takes the reader on a walking tour of solipsism's scariest margin in his latest novel about the age we are already half into.
The Minority Report
Philip K. Dick
In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses precogs—people with the power to see into the future—to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for Anderton, his precogs perceive him as the next criminal.
The Golden Man
Philip K. Dick
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. Dick
Front cover illustration by Richard Sparks
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #1)
Philip K. Dick
San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has killed millions, driving entire species to extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep . . . even humans. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids—they’re machines, but look, sound, and think like humans—clever, and most of all, dangerous humans.
[Philip K. Dick’s award-winning Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? served as the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER. BOOM! Studios presents the complete novel transplanted into the comic book medium, mixing all-new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking 24-issue maxi-series.]
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
Philip K. Dick
Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in his works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for "The Man in the High Castle," and in the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This volume includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955.Volume 1/5. Contents:
- Stability
- Roog
- The Little Movement
- Beyond Lies the Wub
- The Gun
- The Skull
- The Defenders
- Mr. Spaceship
- Piper in the Woods
- The Infinites
- The Preserving Machine
- Expendable
- The Variable Man
- The Indefatigable Frog
- The Crystal Crypt
- The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
- The Builder
- Meddler
- Paycheck
- The Great C
- Out in the Garden
- The King of the Elves
- Colony
- Prize Ship
- NannyOther editions of this volume have the same list of stories, and were published under these titles:
- Beyond Lies the Wub,
- Paycheck and Other Classic Stories,
- The King of the Elves (+1 extra story).
Paycheck and Other Classic Stories
Philip K. Dick
Electronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life -- except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction. Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of seemingly worthless objects: a code key, a ticket stub, a receipt, a length of wire, half a poker chip, a piece of green cloth and a bus token. But when he is confronted by the Special Police, who seem to be investigating Retherick for their own reasons, Jennings finds himself running for his life, realizing that the "worthless" objects are the key to unlocking his recent past, and ensuring that he has a future. ("Paycheck")Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. He has been described by The Wall Street Journal as the man who, "More than anyone else… really puts you inside people's minds."Volume 1/5. Includes stories from 1952-1955:
- Stability
- Roog
- The Little Movement
- Beyond Lies the Wub
- The Gun
- The Skull
- The Defenders
- Mr. Spaceship
- Piper in the Woods
- The Infinites
- The Preserving Machine
- Expendable
- The Variable Man
- The Indefatigable Frog
- The Crystal Crypt
- The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
- The Builder
- Meddler
- Paycheck
- The Great C
- Out in the Garden
- The King of the Elves
- Colony
- Prize Ship
- NannyOther editions of this volume have the same list of stories, and were published under these titles:
- The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford,
- Beyond Lies the Wub,
- The King of the Elves (+1 extra story).
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Philip K. Dick
The stories that inspired the original dramatic series.
Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In “Autofac,” Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. “Exhibit Piece” and “The Commuter” feature Dick exploring one of his favorite the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists. And “The Hanging Stranger” provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dick wrote it at the height of the Cold War.
Strange, funny, and powerful, the stories in this collection highlight a master at work, encapsulating his boundless imagination and deep understanding of the human condition.
Total Recall
Philip K. Dick
The inspiration for the upcoming film Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale, and directed by Len Wiseman. This ebook-only edition of Philip K. Dick’s classic short story tells the story of Douglas Quail, an unfulfilled bureaucrat who dreams of visiting Mars, but can't afford the trip. Luckily, there is Rekal Incorporated, a company that lets everyday stiffs believe they’ve been on incredible adventures. The only problem is that when technicians attempt a memory implant of a spy mission to Mars, they find that real memories of just such a trip are already in Quail's brain. Suddenly, Quail is running for his life from government agents, but his memories might make him more of a liability than he is worth. Originally published as "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale."
The Philip K. Dick Reader
Philip K. Dick
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), "Paychecks", "The Minority Report", and 21 more.
Content:
"Fair Game" (1959)
"The Hanging Stranger" (1953)
""The Eyes Have It"" (1953)
"The Golden Man" (1954)
"The Turning Wheel" (1954)
"The Last of the Masters" (1954)
"The Father-Thing" (1954)
"Strange Eden" (1954)
"Tony and the Beetles" (1954)
"Null-O" (1958)
"To Serve the Master" (1956)
"Exhibit Piece" (1954)
"The Crawlers" (1954)
"Sales Pitch" (1954)
"Shell Game" (1954)
"Upon the Dull Earth" (1954)
"Foster, You're Dead!" (1955)
"Pay for the Printer" (1956)
"War Veteran" (1955)
"The Chromium Fence" (1955)
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)
"The Minority Report" (1956)
"Paycheck" (1953)
"Second Variety" (1953)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 6 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #6)
Philip K. Dick
The book that inspired the film Blade Runner comes to comics!Worldwide bestselling science fiction writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today," and served as the basis for the film Blade Runner. BOOM! Studios is honored to present the complete novel transplanted into the graphic novel medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, groundbreaking series. Volume 6 of 6.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 5 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #5)
Philip K. Dick
The Eisner Award-nominated series continues! Worldwide bestselling sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and "arguably Mr. Dick’s best." Boom! Studios is honored to present the complete novel transplanted to the comic book medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking series experiment that the Village Voice named one of the "Best Comics and Graphic Novels"! Collects issues 17–20.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,#4)
Philip K. Dick
The Eisner Award-nominated series continues! Worldwide bestselling sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and "arguably Mr. Dick’s best." Boom! Studios is honored to present the complete novel transplanted to the comic book medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking series experiment that the Village Voice named one of the "Best Comics and Graphic Novels"! Collects issues 13–16.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 3 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,#3)
Philip K. Dick
The book that inspired the film Blade Runner continues! Sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's award-winning Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and served as the basis for Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner. Boom! Studios presents the complete novel transplanted to the comic book medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking series experiment illustrated by acclaimed artist Tony Parker! Collects issues 9–12, including Jonathan Lethem's essay on being a Philip K. Dick fan.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 2 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #2)
Philip K. Dick
Worldwide best-selling sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and served as the basis for the film Blade Runner. Boom! Studios is honored to present Volume 2 of the deluxe hardcover edition taking the novel and transplanting it into the comic book medium. A ground-breaking maxi-series experiment, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is illustrated by acclaimed artist Tony Parker. Collects issues 5–8.
Realidades Adaptadas
Philip K. Dick
Cinema e literatura sempre andaram de mãos dadas. E quando o assunto é ficção científica, nenhum autor contemporâneo foi mais roteirizado do que Philip K. Dick, nem mesmo mestres do gênero, como Isaac Asimov e Arthur C. Clarke. Pouco conhecido no Brasil por sua obra literária, Dick é um sucesso entre as plateias de cinema, que vai muito além de Blade Runner – O Caçador de Androides, ícone cult dos anos 1980 inspirado em um de seus romances. A fim de prestar o devido reconhecimento a esse extraordinário autor, "Realidades Adaptadas" reúne, em uma edição inédita no mundo, os contos de Philip K. Dick que foram adaptados para a sétima arte, levando ao grande público os textos originais que inspiraram roteiristas e diretores a fazer seus filmes.
Paycheck
Philip K. Dick
Electronic engineer Jennings cannot remember the last two years working for Retherick Construction. His payment is a bag of clues and essential aids for his future quest for the truth: code key, ticket stub, receipt, wire, half a poker chip, green cloth scrap, and bus token. The Special Police pursue, and he is on the run for his life.
Foster, You're Dead
Philip K. Dick
'Foster, You're Dead' is a short story about a man who refuses to buy a bomb shelter during a war with the Soviet Union.
The Philip K. Dick Collection: A Library of America Boxed Set
Philip K. Dick
This boxed set includes all three Library of America volumes collecting Philip K. Dick’s best science fiction novels:
The Man in the High Castle • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? • Ubik • Martian Time-Slip • Dr. Bloodmoney • Now Wait for Last Year • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said • A Scanner Darkly • A Maze of Death • VALIS • The Divine Invasion • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Suvišni Izveštaj
Philip K. Dick
Zamislite budućnost u kojoj gotovo da nema zločina, a ubistvo se doživljava kao fenomen iz prošlosti? Zahvaljujući predviđanjima o kojima izveštavaju tri prekognita (bića koja su sposobna da vide neku od mogućih budućnosti), policija lišava slobode potencijalne zločince pre nego što stignu da izvrše naumljeni zločin. Ali šta ako njihovi izveštaji ne budu tačni ili, još gore, budu pogrešno shvaćeni? Vagajući između društvene uređenosti, mita o sigurnosti i lične slobode, Filip K. Dik je ispisao jednu od svojih najzanimljivijih meditacija na jednu od njegovih već dobro poznatih tema. Možemo se svakako prisetiti i Spilbergove istoimene ekranizacije ove novele koja je u godini kada je nastala zabeležila rekordnu gledanost, kao uostalom i sve ekranizacije Dikovih dela decenijama unazad.
Será que os Androides Sonham com Ovelhas Elétricas?
Philip K. Dick
O romance que deu origem ao filme "Blade Runner", do autor de "Minority Report" e "A Scanner Darkly". A Guerra deixou a Terra devastada. Por entre as ruínas, o caçador de recompensas Rick Deckard persegue a sua presa: os andróides desertores. Quando não desempenha esta tarefa, Deckard sonha possuir o maior símbolo de status da época: um animal vivo. É então que Rick recebe a sua principal tarefa: localizar seis Nexus, seis alvos que lhe podem valer uma enorme recompensa. Mas a vida nunca é assim tão linear, e a de Rick transforma-se rapidamente num pesadelo caleidoscópio de subterfúgios e enganos.
Gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche?
Philip K. Dick
San Francisco 1992. La Terra è un pianeta desolato, devastato dalle guerre nucleari; gli esseri umani sono in gran parte emigrati nelle colonie esterne e numerose specie animali si sono estinte, tanto che possedere un animale domestico vivente è diventato un ambito status symbol. Per chi non può permettersi un cucciolo "vero", come il cacciatore di taglie Rick Deckard, ci sono le pecore elettriche… L'umanità vive infatti affiancata da diversi modelli di robot, dalle semplici macchine-utensili ai vicini di casa artificiali, fino a sofisticati modelli di androidi assolutamente indistinguibili dagli esseri umani, anzi persino più intelligenti, come i Nexus-6. Quando alcuni esemplari di questi replicanti perfetti fuggono da una colonia marziana per vivere liberi, Rick è incaricato di "congedarli". Prima, però, dovrà riuscire a individuarli… Cos'è reale e cosa no? Cos'è umano e cosa no? E poi le droghe, i difficili rapporti tra i sessi, la repressione dello Stato: i grandi temi della narrativa di Philip K. Dick animano questo celebre romanzo di fantascienza, tragico e grottesco, un capolavoro che esce dai confini del genere letterario, «un trattato di teologia cibernetica assolutamente vertiginoso, di una ricchezza narrativa impressionante» (Carrère).
Blade Runner: Androides sonham com ovelhas elétricas?
Philip K. Dick
Inspiração para um dos maiores clássicos do cinema, dirigido por Ridley Scott, este romance é de autoria do prolífico e revolucionário Philip K. Dick, um dos maiores expoentes da contracultura na ficção científica durante as décadas de 60 e 70. Rick Deckard é um caçador de recompensas, vivendo em uma San Francisco decadente, coberta pela poeira radioativa que dizimou inúmeras espécies de animais e plantas. Um novo trabalho pode ser o ponto de virada para melhorar seu padrão de vida e realizar seu sonho de consumo: uma ovelha de verdade, para substituir a réplica elétrica que ele cria em casa. Para isso, Deckard precisa perseguir e aposentar seis androides que estão foragidos, se passando por humanos. Mas as convicções do detetive podem mudar quando percebe que a linha que separa o real do fabricado não é mais tão nítida quanto ele acreditava. Em Androides sonham com ovelhas elétricas?, título original deste livro, Philip K. Dick cria uma atmosfera sombria e perturbadora para contar uma história impressionante, e abordar questões filosóficas profundas sobre a natureza da vida, da religião, da tecnologia e da própria condição humana. Esta nova edição conta com capa ilustrada por Rafael Coutinho, com design de Giovanna Cianelli. A cena imaginada por Coutinho homenageia o filme e retoma o ar policial noir do romance, ao mesmo tempo em que explora a atmosfera de dúvida e segredos presente na obra de Dick.
Clans of the Alphane Moon
Philip K. Dick
When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they will 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.
"Shell Game" was originally published in 1954 for the first time. Later it was expanded into the "Clans of the Alphane Moon." (1964)
The Game-Players of Titan
Philip K. Dick
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.
Minority Report and Other Stories
Philip K. Dick
Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes stories that will make you laugh, cringe...and stop and think.The Minority Report: a special unit that employs those with the power of precognition to prevent crimes proves itself less than reliable...We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: an everyguy's yearning for more exciting "memories" places him in a danger he never could have imagined (basis of the feature film Total Recall)...Paycheck: a mechanic who has no memory of the previous two years of his life finds that a bag of seemingly worthless and unrelated objects can actually unlock the secret of his recent past — and insure that he has a future...Second Variety: the UN's technological advances to win a global war veer out of control, threatening to destroy all of humankind (basis of the movie Screamers)...The Eyes Have It: a whimsical, laugh-out-loud play on the words of the title.
The Minority Report and Other Stories
Philip K. Dick
Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes stories that will make you lough, cringe...and stop and think.
The Minority Report: a special unit that employs those with the power of precognition to prevent crimes proves itself less than reliable...
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: an everyguy's yearning for more exciting "memories" places him in a danger he never could have imagined (basis of the feature film Total Recall)...
Paycheck: a mechanic who has no memory of the previous two years of his life finds that a bag of seemingly worthless and unrelated objects can actually unlock the secret of his recent past -- and insure that he has a future...
Second Variety: the UN's technological advances to win a global war veer out of control, threatening to destroy all of humankind (basis of the movie Screamers)...
The Eyes Have It: a whimsical, laugh-out-loud play on the words of the title.
Ma gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche?
Philip K. Dick
Nel 1992 la Guerra Mondiale ha ucciso milioni di persone, e condannato all'estinzione intere specie, costringendo l'umanità ad andare nello spazio. Chi è rimasto sogna di possedere un animale vivente, e le compagnie producono copie incredibilmente realistiche: gatti, cavalli, pecore...
Anche l'uomo è stato duplicato. I replicanti sono simulacri perfetti e indistinguibili, e per questo motivo sono stati banditi dalla Terra. Ma a volte decidono di confondersi tra i loro simili biologici e di far perdere le proprie tracce.
A San Francisco vive un uomo che ha l'incarico di ritirare gli androidi che violano la legge, ma i dubbi intralciano spesso il suo crudele mestiere, spingendolo a chiedersi cosa sia davvero un essere umano...
Esce per la prima volta in Italia e nel mondo un'edizione rigorosa e commentata di un classico della moderna letteratura d'immaginazione, l'opera che più ha influenzato la visione della metropoli futura, e che ha anticipato i dilemmi della bioetica contemporanea. Tragico e grottesco assieme, il romanzo di Philip K. Dick racconta il panorama desolato della San Francisco del futuro (ma è il 1992...), il desiderio di amore e redenzione che alberga nei più umili, trasformando il genere fantascientifico in un noir cupo e metafisico, in cui si muovono esseri umani e artificiali, cacciatori e vittime. Ma gli androidi sognano pecore elettriche? - dopo l'enorme successo di Blade Runner, la trasposizione cinematografica diretta da Ridley Scott e interpretata da Harrison Ford - è diventato paradossalmente uno dei classici meno conosciuti del nostro tempo; oggi il romanzo e il film si rispecchiano e si confrontano, permettendo ai lettori di ricomporre l'immagine complessa e deformata di un mondo a venire che è già dentro di noi, sepolto nei sogni e nella fantasia collettiva del nuovo millennio.
Blade Runner. Czy androidy marzą o elektrycznych owcach?
Philip K. Dick
Książka, na podstawie której Ridley Scott nakręcił Łowcę androidów. Obejrzawszy ten film, Dick uznał ponoć, że grający tytułowego eksterminatora Harrison Ford dostał zlecenie i na niego...
"Co to jest człowiek? To pytanie jest tematem Blade Runnera i żeby na nie odpowiedzieć, stworzył Dick człowieka sztucznego...
W powieści Blade runner sztuczni ludzie to nie poczciwe roboty Asimova z wmontowanymi bezpiecznikami moralności zwanymi trzema prawami robotyki. Androidy Dicka są groźne, bo są kłamstwem, wyglądają jak ludzie, ale brakuje im człowieczeństwa - poczucia winy, współczucia, sumienia...
Łowca zbiegłych androidów Rick Deckard poddaje je testowi na współczucie. Istoty niezdolne do współczucia likwiduje. Tylko co dzieje się z jego współczuciem?" – z przedmowy Lecha Jęczmyka.
The Simulacra
Philip K. Dick
Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to practice in a world full of the maladjusted. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has never met. Richard Kongrosian refuses to see anyone because he is convinced his body odor is lethal. And the fascistic Bertold Goltz is trying to overthrow the government. With wonderful aplomb, Philip K. Dick brings this story to a crashing conclusion and in classic fashion shows there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see.
Confessions of a Crap Artist
Philip K. Dick
Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hollow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack's murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack's, but a great deal uglier.
Counter-Clock World
Philip K. Dick
In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick’s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase — a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, “Good-bye,” and part with, “Hello,” and underneath the world’s tombstones, the dead are coming back to life. One imminent old-born is Anarch Peak, a vibrant religious leader whose followers continued to flourish long after his death. His return from the dead has such awesome implications that those who apprehend him will very likely be those who control the fate of the world.
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
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 final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick’s brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick’s life and work.
Martian Time-Slip
Philip K. Dick
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 Workers' union—suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future.
But what sort of future? And what happens to those unfortunates whom Manfred ushers into it? 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.
A Maze of Death
Philip K. Dick
Fourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations. At once a wrenching metaphysical thriller and an ingenious meditation on the nature of divinity, A Maze of Death is Philip K. Dick at his most dizzyingly provocative.
Eye in the Sky
Philip K. Dick
While sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a lab accident. When he regains consciousness, he is in a fantasy world of Old Testament morality gone awry—a place of instant plagues, immediate damnations, and death to all perceived infidels. Hamilton figures out how he and his compatriots can escape this world and return to their own, but first they must pass through three other vividly fantastical worlds, each more perilous and hilarious than the one before.
Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and 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.
The Penultimate Truth
Philip K. Dick
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
Time Out of Joint
Philip K. Dick
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?'
Opowiadania najlepsze
Philip K. Dick
Opowiadania zamieszczone w tomie stanowią próbę zrozumienia - wsłuchania się w głosy docierające z jakiegoś innego miejsca, niezwykle odległego, głosy bardzo słabe, ale ważne. Usłyszeć je można tylko nocą, gdy umilknie zgiełk i wrzawa naszego świata... (Sprawdziłem to kiedyś na zegarku, odbiór jest najlepszy między trzecią a czwartą czterdzieści pięć rano.) Rzecz jasna zazwyczaj nie informuję o tym ludzi, którzy pytają: "Skąd bierze pan swoje pomysły?" Po prostu mówię im, że nie wiem. Tak jest znacznie bezpieczniej.
Podemos recordarlo todo por usted
Philip K. Dick
Podemos recordarlo todo por usted es un cuento de ciencia ficción escrito por Philip K. Dick y publicado en abril de 1966 en The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; en el que se basaron para la película Total Recall. Representa un clásico enmarañado acerca de la realidad, la falsa memoria y la memoria real.
Douglas Quail, un hombre simple y ordinario, desea visitar Marte. Incapaz de permitírselo, visita una empresa, Rekall, Inc., que ofrece memorias implantadas. La tentativa de implantar algunos recuerdos marcianos vivos en Quail como un agente secreto, revela que es en realidad un agente encubierto del gobierno, al que le fueron manipulados sus recuerdos debido a lo peligroso de los secretos que conocía.
Scorrete lacrime, disse il poliziotto
Philip K. Dick
In un futuro di classi genetiche rigidamente separate, di metropoli controllate da una polizia corrotta, un uomo appartenente alla casta superiore uno dei più famosi del globo si ritrova all'improvviso senza identità. Jason Taverner, conduttore di uno show televisivo da trenta milioni di telespettatori, viene infatti cancellato all'improvviso dalla memoria del pianeta. Nessuno si ricorda di lui, nessun supporto informatico conserva il suo nome. Jason Taverner non è mai esistito. Comincia da qui un vero e proprio viaggio nell'inferno, nei bassifondi di una città ipertecnologica dove il proletariato della specie vive in un immenso labirinto. Tutto sembrerebbe deciso. Ma la superiore dotazione genetica di Taverner potrebbe ancora dettargli una via d'uscita. In un mondo attraversato da lividi lampi di disfacimento, il genio profetico di Philip K. Dick immagina la disperata corsa di un personaggio alla ricerca della salvezza. Quella che solo l'antico tributo umano al dolore, le lacrime, potrebbe forse rendere possibile.
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
From Science Fiction Icon Philip K Dick, this collection of stories includes the story, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, which is the basis for the new movie, Total Recall, starring Kate Beckinsale and Colin Farrell.
Volume 2/5. Contents:
- The Cookie Lady
- Beyond the Door
- Prominent Author
- We Can Remember it for You Wholesale
- Jon's World
- The Cosmic Poachers
- Progeny
- Some Kinds of Life
- Martians Come in Clouds
- The Commuter
- The World She Wanted
- A Surface Raid
- Project: Earth
- The Trouble with Bubbles
- Breakfast at Twilight
- A Present for Pat
- The Hood Maker
- Of Withered Apples
- Human Is
- Adjustment Team
- The Impossible Planet
- Imposter
- James P. Crow
- Planet for Transients
- Small Town
- Souvenir
- Survey Team.Other editions of this volume are titled:
- We Can Remember it for You Wholesale [by Citadel],
- Second Variety,
- Adjustment Team
Editions published by Citadel include "We can remember..." instead of "Second Variety" into Volume 2.
Now Wait for Last Year
Philip K. Dick
Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time—and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent's newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy—and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the man better or to keep him poised just this side of death.
Now Wait for Last Year bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as it ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional—and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time it is.
The World Jones Made
Philip K. Dick
Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly, and quite possibly mad, but in a very short time he will rise from telling fortunes at a mutant carnival to convulsing an entire planet. For although Jones has the power to see the future — a power that makes his life a torment — his real gift lies elsewhere: in his ability to make people dream again in a world where dreaming has been made illegal, even when the dream is indistinguishable from a nightmare.
In Philip K. Dick's unsettling chronicle of the rise and fall of a postnuclear messiah, readers will find a novel that is as minutely realistic as it is prophetic. For along with its engineered mutants, hermaphroditic sex performers, and protoplasmic drifters from the stars, The World Jones Made gives us nothing less than a deadly accurate reading of our own hunger for belief.
Ojo en el cielo
Philip K. Dick
Al ascender a la estratosfera, Jack Hamilton miró hacia la Tierra, una enorme bola con una pequeña masa de materia incandescente que orbita a su alrededor... ¡el Sol! ¿Era acaso el antiguo universo geocéntrico en que todos los cuerpos celestes giraban en torno a una Tierra estática? Pero de pronto descubriría que lo que estaba viendo era un ojo, un ojo gigantesco en el cielo. Hamilton se encontraba atrapado en otro mundo, creado por una mente enferma. Y de este mundo no había escapatoria posible.
La svastica sul sole
Philip K. Dick
Le forze dell’Asse hanno vinto la seconda guerra mondiale e l’America è divisa in due parti, l’una asservita al Reich, l’altra ai Giapponesi. Sul resto del mondo il credo della superiorità razziale ariana è dilagato a tal punto da togliere ogni volontà o possibilità di riscatto. L’Africa è vittima di una soluzione radicale di sterminio, mentre in Europa l’Italia ha preso le briciole e i nazisti si preparano a inviare razzi su Marte e bombe atomiche sul Giappone. Sulla costa occidentale degli Stati Uniti, i Giapponesi sono ossessionati dagli oggetti del folclore e della cultura americana, e tutto sembra ruotare intorno a due libri: il millenario I Ching, l’oracolo della saggezza cinese, e il best-seller del momento, vietato in tutti i paesi del Reich, un testo secondo il quale l’Asse sarebbe stato in realtà sconfitto dagli Alleati.
La svastica sul sole, vincitore nel 1963 del Premio Hugo, racconta la Storia e le sue possibilità, la realtà e le riscritture, lo scontro culturale tra Oriente e Occidente, l’invasione della spiritualità nella vita quotidiana, il dramma morale di chi deve sopravvivere in un regime di sottomissione.
Galactic Pot-Healer
Philip K. Dick
The Glimmung wants Joe Fernwright. Fernwright is a pot-healer - a repairer of ceramics - in a drably utilitarian future where such skills have little value. And the Glimmung? The Glimmung is a being that looks something like a gyroscope, something like a teenaged girl, and something like the contents of an ocean. What's more, it may be divine. And, like certain gods of old Earth, it has a bad temper.
What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.
The Divine Invasion
Philip K. Dick
In The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: 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?
The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence"
--West Coast Review of Books
L'uomo nell'alto castello
Philip K. Dick
Stati Uniti d'America, 1962. La schiavitù è di nuovo legale, i pochi ebrei sopravvissuti si nascondono dietro falsi nomi, la California è asservita al Giappone. Vent'anni prima l'Asse ha vinto la seconda guerra mondiale, e si è spartito l'America. Sul resto del mondo incombe una realtà da incubo: il credo della superiorità razziale ariana ha soffocato ogni volontà o possibilità di riscatto. Nel loro settore degli Stati Uniti i giapponesi sono ossessionati dagli oggetti del folclore e della tradizione americana, che collezionano con avidità. Tra loro vi è l'antiquario collaborazionista con i suoi altolocati clienti, l'artigiano ebreo, la maestra di judo... In questo scenario due libri segnano il destino collettivo, influenzando scelte e comportamenti: un testo antico, il millenario "I Ching", l'oracolo della saggezza cinese che diffonde la spiritualità orientale nei costumi americani.
Čovek u visokom dvorcu
Philip K. Dick
Filip K. Dik upravo je delom [i]Čovek u visokom dvorcu[/i] skrenuo pažnju književne kritike, koja ga već godinama svrstava među najistaknutije savremene majstore žanra.
Radnja romana odvija se u Americi, u situaciji u kojoj su Japan i Nemačka izašli iz Drugog svetskog rata kao pobednici. Strašna vizija ovakvog „paralelnog vremena“ - koju autor inače objašnjava kao iluziju ili ružan san - osnova je iz koje izrasta akcija protagonista romana: ljudi uhvaćenih u realistički dočaranu konstrukciju jednog neostvarenog pakla.
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale
Philip K. Dick
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. This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1953-1955"A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection." -- Kirkus Reviews"The collected stories of Philip K. Dick is awe inspiring." -- The Washington Post"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." -- Wall Street JournalVolume 2/5. Contents:
- The Cookie Lady
- Beyond the Door
- Prominent Author
- We Can Remember it for You Wholesale
- Jon's World
- The Cosmic Poachers
- Progeny
- Some Kinds of Life
- Martians Come in Clouds
- The Commuter
- The World She Wanted
- A Surface Raid
- Project: Earth
- The Trouble with Bubbles
- Breakfast at Twilight
- A Present for Pat
- The Hood Maker
- Of Withered Apples
- Human Is
- Adjustment Team
- The Impossible Planet
- Imposter
- James P. Crow
- Planet for Transients
- Small Town
- Souvenir
- Survey Team.Other editions of this volume are titled:
- We Can Remember it for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories [by Citadel],
- Second Variety,
- Adjustment Team
Editions published by Citadel include "We can remember..." instead of "Second Variety" into Volume 2.
El hombre en el castillo
Philip K. Dick
La Segunda Guerra Mundial ha terminado en 1947, siendo los Aliados derrotados por el Eje. Los Estados Unidos han sido invadidos y consecuentemente divididos entre japoneses y alemanes, del mismo modo que Alemania tras su derrota en el «mundo real».
Un autor que se acerca a un escenario como el propuesto se enfrenta al problema de describir cómo sería el mundo si los nazis hubieran ganado la guerra. Dick opta por trazar a grandes rasgos la brutalidad nazi llevada al mundo entero, e incluso al espacio exterior, y elige centrarse preferentemente en la cotidianidad de los americanos derrotados dentro de una cultura japonesa victoriosa.
La acción se desarrolla en 1962 en la costa Oeste de los que otrora fueran los Estados Unidos, ahora PSA, Pacific States of America, zona de influencia japonesa. Los nativos son ciudadanos de segunda clase a pesar de que su cultura es admirada por los vencedores, a tal punto que uno de los mejores negocios es la venta de auténticas antigüedades americanas, como relojes de Mickey Mouse. Este mundo nos es descrito a través de las vidas de Robert Childan, Frank Frink, su ex-esposa Juliana, y Nobusuke Tagomi, saltando la narración constantemente de un personaje a otro.
La trama gira alrededor de tres cuestiones que se tocan por momentos: el comercio en torno a las antigüedades americanas y la valoración que los japoneses hacen de ella, la misión del Sr. Baynes, llegado de Europa, para entrevistarse, con fines aparentemente comerciales, con el Sr. Shinjiro Yatabe, y un extraño libro, censurado por los nazis, que describe a los Aliados victoriosos, escrito por un tal Hawthorne Abendsen, el Hombre en el Castillo al que alude el título.
I simulacri
Philip K. Dick
Nel Ventunesimo secolo gli Stati Uniti d’Europa e d’America sono governati da una coppia incantevole: der Alte, il presidente, e la First Lady, vero motore del potere. Popolare e amatissima star televisiva, la donna nasconde segreti che ne potrebbero destabilizzare l’autorità, e si oppone a ogni tentativo di rovesciamento del suo benigno regime. Fra complotti, corporation industriali, conflitti sociali tra élite e massa, tra chi conosce la verità sulla reale natura di der Alte e chi crede ciecamente nella verità offerta al pubblico, si muovono gli altri personaggi del romanzo: il pianista psi Richard Kongrosian, capace di suonare senza toccare i tasti; Beltold Goltz, capo dell’organizzazione dei Figli di Giobbe; Loony Luke, venditore di astronavi che permettono alle famiglie disperate di emigrare su Marte; e poi i simulacri, sostituti robotici degli esseri umani, usati come strumenti fondamentali di un rischioso gioco politico.
Imbevuto dell’atmosfera e degli eventi dell’epoca, tra Jacky Kennedy e Richard Nixon, saturo di paranoia e di una cultura del segreto e del sospetto che esploderà nel decennio successivo, I simulacri è tra i migliori romanzi di Dick degli anni Sessanta: un’opera corale sospesa fra stupore e amarezza, pessimismo e volontà di riscatto.
Dottor Futuro
Philip K. Dick
Jim Parsons è un medico di talento, abile nelle più avanzate tecniche mediche e occupato a salvare vite umane. Ma un incidente stradale lo proietta improvvisamente a centinaia di anni di distanza, nella San Francisco del futuro, dove Parsons scopre con orrore una civiltà incredibilmente avanzata dal punto di vista genetico, ma guidata da discutibili valori etici e in preda a lotte intestine tra fazioni rivali; una società che abbraccia il culto della morte e si fonda sulla distruzione e sulla violenza. Si trova quindi intrappolato tra il suo istinto, che lo spingerebbe a guarire le persone, e il conflitto con una realtà in cui è illegale impegnarsi per salvare vite umane. Ma Parsons non è l’unico a credere che la vita abbia un valore da preservare; e coloro che condividono le sue convinzioni stanno mettendo a punto dei piani per sfruttare le sue competenze mediche e salvare così un’idea di futuro.
¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas?
Philip K. Dick
Tras la guerra nuclear, la Tierra ha quedado sometida bajo una gran nube de polvo radioactivo. La gente ha emigrado a otros planetas del sistema y se ha llevado a androides que les asisten. Algunos de estos han escapado de la servidumbre y han vuelto ilegalmente a la Tierra. Y Rick Deckard, cazador de bonificaciones, es uno de los encargados de acabar con ellos. Pero, ¿es justo matar a los humanoides sólo por el hecho de serlo? ¿Cuál es el límite entre la vida artificial y la natural?
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 4: Minority Report
Philip K. Dick
A fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form for the expression of his ideas - The Independent
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 which Dick began writing novels prolifically and his short story output lessened. The title story of this collection is being made into a Steven Spielberg movie of the same name, while "The Days of Perky Pat" inspired one of Dick's greatest works, the novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldridge; The Penultimate Truth grew from "The Mold of Yancy". Philip K. Dick is shown at his incomparable prime in this stunning collection.
An elusive and incomparable artist - Ursula K. Le Guin
He stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations - Brian Aldiss
Cover Illustration: Chris Moore.
Volume 4/5 contains:
- Autofac (1955)
- Service Call (1955)
- Captive Market (1955)
- The Mold of Yancy (1955)
- The Minority Report (1956)
- Recall Mechanism (1959)
- The Unreconstructed M (1957)
- Explorers We (1959)
- War Game (1959)
- If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1963)
- Novelty Act (1964)
- Waterspider (1964)
- What the Dead Men Say (1964)
- Orpheus with Clay Feet (1987)
- The Days of Perky Pat (1963)
- Stand-By (1963)
- What'll We Do with Ragland Park? (1963)
- Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964)Other editions of this volume have the same stories, and were published under these titles:
- The Days of Perky Pat,
- The Minority Report,
- The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories.
The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Philip K. Dick
Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. . . . Start It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven't done anything about it; I can't think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government, and they sent back a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. Anyhow, the whole thing is known; I'm not the first to discover it. Maybe it's even under control. "All of his work starts with the basic assumption that there cannot be one, single, objective reality", writes science fiction author Charles Platt.
Man in the High Castle, The (The Man in the High Castle)
Philip K. Dick
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.
Director, Alex Jackson.
Performed by Jeff Cummings.
9 audio discs (10 hr., 4 min.)
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