Philip K. Dick -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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Philip K. Dick Short Stories Ua
Philip K. Dick / Audio Cassette / Expected December 2000
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The Minority Report : 18 Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Expected January 2000
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The Philip K. Dick Award is given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of the late writer's work. This collection (Volume 4) covers the years 1954-1964 and includes such fascinating stories as "Service Call", "Stand By", "The Days of Perky Pat", and many others.

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The Galactic Pot-Healer
Philip K. Dick / Audio Cassette / Published February 1999
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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.

Martian Time-Slip [UNABRIDGED]
Philip K. Dick, Tom Parker (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published February 1999
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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.

Martian Time-Slip [UNABRIDGED]
Philip K. Dick, Tom Parker (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published August 1998
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Parker's voice has a nasal quality that adds commonality to this eerie story of colonial life on Mars. Manfred Steiner is a 10-year-old autistic child, born on Mars, who Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's Union suspects may be able to manipulate time. In this venue, Dick discusses reality and explores madness as a bridge to other realms. Parker's precise reading style alleviates the intensity of the drama and sometimes frenzied action and helps the listener hang on to the story line. Using consistent pacing and tone, Parker leads us through extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, suicide a...

Radio Free Albemuth
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published April 1998
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In his last published novel, Philip K. Dick produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest prankster-prophet.

Isaac Asimov's All-Time Favorite Science Fiction Stories
Martin H. Greenberg(Editor), et al / Audio Cassette / Published March 1998
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Isaac Asimov, who wrote a wealth of innovative science fiction, was also a leader in collecting great science fiction by other writers. Here are two of his favorites, edited by his long-time collaborator. Features Philip K. Dick's "Captive Market" and Poul Anderson's "The Last of the Deliverers".

Galactic Pot-Healer [UNABRIDGED]
Philip K. Dick, Tom Parker (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published March 1998
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Joe Fernwright, out-of-work pot-healer on an Earth bogged down by overpopulation and bureaucracy, is summoned by the Glimmung to participate in an epic undertaking. (Imagine a young Douglas Adams writing during a period of existential angst.) Like a Shaw play, this is essentially a dramatic essay in which characters do not speak for themselves but embody viewpoints. They are not much of a challenge for the oral interpreter. What this book does demand of the performer is a carefully controlled tone for the author's narrative voice, in which irony, flippancy and adolescent earnest-ness contend u...

The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick 1938-1971
Philip K. Dick, James Blaylock (Introduction) / Hardcover / Published March 1997
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The Philip K. Dick Reader
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published March 1997
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny (Introduction) / Paperback / Published June 1996
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A beautiful new trade edition of the original science fiction masterpiece that inspired the cult movie classic Blade Runner. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into 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 simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep . . . even humans.

The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings
Philip K. Dick, Lawrence Sutin (Editor) / Paperback / Published February 1996
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In a collection of philosophical essays, journal excerpts, speeches, and interviews, the pioneering science fiction writer discusses the union of physics and metaphysics, the impact of virtual reality, and the challenges of basic human values in an age of technology and spiritual decline.

Martian Time-Slip
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published June 1995
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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.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [ABRIDGED]
Philip K. Dick / Audio Cassette / Published August 1994
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Rick Deckard hunts androids who are hiding among humans living in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. 2 cassettes.

A Maze of Death
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published June 1994
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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.

Galactic Pot-Healer
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published June 1994
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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.

We Can Build You
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published June 1994
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Now Wait for Last Year
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published July 1993
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In a novel that makes our notions of politics, personality, and time seem terrifyingly provisional, Dick tells of a hapless doctor, whose planet is enmeshed in endless war, whose wife is addicted to a time control drug, and whose newest patient's demise could decide the fate of the world.

The World Jones Made
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published July 1993
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Jones began his career telling fortunes at a mutant carnival. But soon this ungainly messiah will convulse a planet with his brand of fanaticism. For although Jones can see the future, his real power lies in his ability to make people dream again--in a world where dreaming has become illegal.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published July 1993
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Eye in the Sky
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published May 1993
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When a telescope's particle beam tears loose from its restraining guides and slices across the paths of the observatory's eight visitors, their innermost hopes, terrifying fears, and exultant dreams are exposed. The films Blade Runner and Total Recall were based on Dick's award-winning science fiction.

Puttering About in a Small Land
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published September 1992
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Confessions of a Crap Artist-Jack Isidore : A Chronicle of Verified Scientific Fact, 1945-1959 (Of Seville, Calif. : A Chronicle of Verified scientifi
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published July 1992
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To Jack, the socially autistic "crap artist" of this devastating domestic tragicomedy set in Northern California in the 1950s, the Earth is hollow and sunlight has weight. But as seen by this innocent, Jack's sister and brother-in-law are just as sealed off from reality--and far more destructive in their obsessions.

The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published July 1992
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It's America in 1962--where slavery is legal and the few surviving Jews hide anxiously under assumed names. All because some twenty years earlier America lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel set in a parallel universe is the work that established Dick as a legendary science fiction author.

The Game-Players of Titan
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published July 1992
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In the aftermath of a devastating global war, the few remaining humans divert themselves with an obsessive game called Bluff--a game played for new spouses and entire cities. But what if Bluff attracts another kind of player, who might not even be human?

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick : The Eye of the Sibyl (Vol 5)
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published May 1992
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A collection of stories by the celebrated science fiction writer includes never-before-published selections as well as the author's standards--``The Little Black Box'' and ``The Pre-Person'' among them. By the author of The Man in the High Castle. Original.

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick : The Minority Report
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published January 1992
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
The Philip K. Dick Award is given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of the late writer's work. This collection (Volume 4) covers the years 1954-1964 and includes such fascinating stories as "Service Call", "Stand By", "The Days of Perky Pat", and many others.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published December 1991
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In the not too distant future, godlike--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics wage marketing battles for the human soul in this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel.

A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published December 1991
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Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time whe...

Ubik
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published December 1991
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Nobody but Philip K. Dick could so successfully combine SF comedy with the unease of reality gone wrong, shifting underfoot like quicksand. Besides grisly ideas like funeral parlors where you swap gossip for the advice of the frozen dead, Ubik (1969) offers such deadpan farce as a moneyless character's attack on the robot apartment door that demands a five-cent toll:

In Pursuit of Valis : Selections from the Exegesis
Philip K. Dick, Lawrence Sutin (Editor) / Hardcover / Published September 1991
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Valis
Philip K. Dick / Paperback / Published July 1991
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Valis, the disorienting and eerily funny centerpiece of Philip Dick's final trilogy that includes The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, is part science fiction, part theological detective story--in which God is both missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.

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