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Concentrating both on studies of Philip K. Dick’s writing from recent critical perspectives, and on reassessing his legacy in light of his new status as a major American author…
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Lawrence Sutin
The book Jonathan Lethem hails as the sane, comprehensive centre of Philip K. Dick studies, this is the definitive biography of one of America’s greatest novelists and science fiction’s greatest…
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Jason Vest
Explores how filmmakers as diverse as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, and Richard Linklater have each, in their turn, expanded, extrapolated, and diverged from Philip K. Dick’s fiction when…
Philip K Dick
First published in 1952 in If, and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. It has since been republished several times, including in Beyond Lies the Wub in…
Philip K. Dick
The earliest short and medium-length fiction by Philip K. Dick (including several previously unpublished stories) during the years 1952-1955 is contained in this collection of science fiction stories. In addition…
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In this sixth entry in the series of Dick’s letters, the great sci-fi author continues his quest initiated by the Valis visions of 1974. In these letters to friends, fans…
Gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War.
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Laurence A. Rickels
For years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When…
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The structural connection between the diachronic liminal characters and their synchronic liminal counterparts has a lot of effects and implications in Dick’s sf. When synchronic liminal shamans bewitch other characters…
Lejla Kucukalic
Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows that the author is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker…
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Philip K. Dick was a very influential science fiction writer. More than a dozen of his stories or novels have been adapted for the screen including Blade Runner, Total Recall…
The Defenders is one of several Philip K. Dick stories to be expanded into a novel. The story was first published in the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
The plot of The Gun centers around a group of space explorers who investigate a planet which appears deserted. However, they are shot down and crash land on the planet…
The spaceship is built and on the first test run into outer space, the team discovers that the professor made some changes to the ship.
The Crystal Crypt is set in the distant future where Earth and Mars are on the verge of war.
A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West has reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. The war continues, however, among the scattered remains of humanity.
Eight years ago a nuclear war began between the United States and the Soviet Union. American survivors evacuated to gigantic bunkers miles under ground. Sophisticated, radioactivity-immune robots called leadys continue…
But certainly Doris Thomas respected the clock. She went to it after the little bird came out to do his thing. She bent over the little door, her lips close…
A collection of eighteen science fiction short stories features The Minority Report, in which Commissioner John Anderton’s clever use of precogs, people who can identify criminals before they can do…
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…
This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1955 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Human Is is a short story…
This is a collection of 26 short stories written by the writer behind movies like Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (1990), Screamers (1995), Minority Report (2002), Next (2007) and The…
‘An elusive and incomparable artist’ Ursula K. Le Guin
Small town America tears itself apart in this realist novel from one of the greats of science fiction.
Four people’s lives intertwine and collide in this early novel from one of the SF greats.
By the author of BLADE RUNNER and MINORITY REPORT
An idea that predates both THE TRUMAN SHOW and THE MATRIX from one of SF’s greats.
Fourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmark-O; they have nothing in common other than a desire to make a fresh start. And they have no idea why they…
‘It is now becoming increasingly clear that Dick is one of the most compelling chroniclers of life and love in 1950s California that we have’ Publishers Weekly
Tie-in to new $80 million Spielberg blockbuster New TV series from FOX premiered September 2015
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An SF classic from its most important 20th century practitioner.
Published to celebrate the life and work of Philip K. Dick, the bestselling author of BLADE RUNNER and MINORITY REPORT on thetwenty-fifth anniversary of his death
Five of Philip K. Dick’s best novels in one fantastic value volume: the best of SF’s visionary master.
Dreams, nightmares and realities: a classic by the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By the author of MINORITY REPORT and BLADE RUNNER.
The final work of a master of SF.
One of Dick’s earliest books, only published after his death, this is the story of four people’s lives, loves and families crashing into each other, with traumatic consequences.
As the Communists advance, a small group of Americans trapped in a Chinese factory must learn to work together in this early novel from Philip K. Dick.
One of Dick’s earliest books, but his last to be published, this is the story of one man’s descent into depression and madness, and his escape to the other side.
The last book which Philip K. Dick worked on, brilliant, clever and complex.
The final volume in the definitive collection of stories by the greatest science fiction writer of the twentieth century