Philip K Dick
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274 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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.
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Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982) was an American author who wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, authoritarian...
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Library of America volume 183
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1128 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Philip K. Dick: (1928-1982) was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. The five novels collected in this volume - a successor to Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s - Offer an overview of the range of this science-fiction master." "Martian Time-Slip (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red Planet where the...
71) The simulacra
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214 pages ; 21 cm
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Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, "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 Kongrossian refuses to see anyone because he is convinced...
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213 pages ; 20 cm
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Bruce Stevens is successful young buyer for the CBB discount store in Reno and he cruises around the Western States in his '55 Mercury checking out likely deals. But when he meets Susan Faine, the part-owner of an ailing typewriter store in Boise, idaho, a more attractive proposition comes his way. Susan is ten years older than Bruce and recently divored. They've also met before, when she was his teacher in fifth grade. But she wants someone to manage...
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These are 2 much praised stories by the master of quirky stories, Philip K. Dick. First published in Planet Stories (1954), "The Crystal Crypt" is classic Dick, presenting you with a narrative that seems yawningly familiar, and then...an unexpected detail is revealed, a detail that changes the meaning of everything you have seen. it is an entertaining and surprising story which I would recommend to any science fiction reader.
Beyond the Door is a...
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The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to propagate themselves and were slowly strangling Terran planets. How did they do that? What was their secret? The answer was baffling and the best human minds could only conclude that their ships and mines were somehow alive. So, the next desperate step was to ask "If they are using organic ships, why can't we...
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Philip K. Dick is well known for his innovative approach to life and the problems and challenges of the future. These five stories were picked to show the breath and scope of his mind. They are:
1 - The Skull
2 - Beyond the Door
3 - The Eyes Have It
4 - The Hanging Stranger
5 - Beyond Lies the Wub