Philip K Dick
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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 themes:...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They've even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"'A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius.'--Jonathan Lethem. 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...
48) Solar lottery
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2203, when a system of random selection chooses both public officeholders and the targets of political assassination, Ted Benteley challenges the system and becomes a pawn in a power struggle that changes the direction of history.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Following a devastating nuclear war, the Moral Reclamation government took over the world and forced its citizens to live by strictly puritanical rules, "no premarital sex, drunkenness, or displaying of neon signs, all of which are reinforced through a constant barrage of messaging to the public. The chief purveyor of these messages is Alan Purcell, next in line to become head of the propaganda bureau. But there is just one problem: a statue of the...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This satirical adventure from Philip K. Dick deals with issues of power, class, and politics, set in a world ruled by big-brained elites. In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn't wealth or privilege, but brains. As children, every citizen of Earth is tested; some are found to be super-smart New Men and some are Unusuals, with various psychic powers. The vast majority...
Author
Publisher
Minotauro esenciales
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"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...
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English
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The inspiration for Blade Runner. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. 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. . . They...
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"This deluxe hardcover edition collects issues 21-24, the climactic grand finale of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book series that was named one of the 'Best Comics and Graphic Novels' by The Village Voice and has captured the imaginations of longtime Philip K. Dick fans and new readers alike."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
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From the Hugo Award–winning author of The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's twisty and paranoid Time Out of Joint is "marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you've ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep you from knowing who you really are. Which it is, of course" (Rolling Stone).
"The time is out of joint; O curs'd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!" (William Shakespeare's...
"The time is out of joint; O curs'd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!" (William Shakespeare's...
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