Humpty Dumpty In Oakland

Humpty Dumpty In Oakland
Author: Philip K Dick
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473209587

Set in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1950s, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate salesmen: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom Philip K. Dick always reserved his greatest sympathy. Jim Fergesson, an elderly garage owner with a heart condition, is about to sell up and retire; Al Miller is a somewhat feckless mechanic who sublets part of Jim's lot and finds his livelihood threatened by the decision to sell; Chris Harman is a record company owner who for years has relied on Fergesson to maintain his cars. When Harman hears of Fergesson's impending retirement he tips him off to what he says is a cast-iron business proposition: a development in nearby Marin County with an opening for a garage. Al Miller, though, is convinced that Harman is a crook, out to fleece Fergesson of his life's savings. As much as he resents Fergesson he can't bear to see that happen and - denying to himself all the time what he is doing - he sets out to thwart Harman.

Humpty Dumpty in Oakland

Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765316919

Set in San Francisco in the late 1950s, this work is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate agents: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom the author reserves his greatest sympathy.

Voices From the Street

Voices From the Street
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429920602

Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement, but he still feels unfulfilled; something is missing from his life. Hadley is an angry young man—an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, and sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working, and it is driving him crazy. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear. One of the earliest books that Dick ever wrote, and the only novel that has never been published, Voices from the Street is the story of Hadley's descent into depression and madness, and out the other side. Most known in his lifetime as a science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick is growing in reputation as an American writer whose powerful vision is an ironic reflection of the present. This novel completes the publication of his canon. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Nick and the Glimmung

Nick and the Glimmung
Author: Philip K Dick
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2015-09-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 057513304X

Nick and his family are forced to leave Earth in order for him to keep his cat, Horace - because all pets are now banned, as they use up badly needed resources. They settle on Plowman's Planet, where they discover a variety of strange and wonderful alien lifeforms. But not all of these weird lifeforms are benevolent - and the family is involved in a series of increasingly dangerous mishaps. Can Horace and Nick manage to outwit the Wub, the Werjes, the Trobes - and the most dangerous of all, the Glimmung? Philip K. Dick's only children's book, first published after his death, brings together many of his most famous alien creations in one gently humorous tale.

Gun, With Occasional Music

Gun, With Occasional Music
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1995-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312858780

Twenty-first-century private detective Conrad Metcalf has a dead doctor on his hands, a monkey on his back, and a kangaroo in his waiting room in a first novel with a sharp-edged, funny vision of the future.

The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike

The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
Author: Philip K Dick
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 057513240X

Small town America tears itself apart in this realist novel from one of the greats of science fiction Leo Runcible - of Runcible Realty - is too excitable and too pushy. His wife drinks too much. He may be a man of principle, but Liberal Jewish Leo is an outsider in the lilywhite Carquinez, Marin County. When he gets into a pointless argument with a customer over his neighbour Walt Dombrosio's house guests, the resulting ramifications follow a bizarre logic of cause and effect to lead in entirely unexpected directions ... And can Leo really have found the skull of a Neanderthal man in middle America? THE MAN WHOSE TEETH WERE ALL EXACTLY ALIKE is a dazzling novel by a writer famous for his power to surprise and delight.

The World Jones Made

The World Jones Made
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547572654

What if you could see into the future? Award-winning author Philip K. Dick examines precognition in this influential novel.

Time Out of Joint

Time Out of Joint
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1994-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140171730

"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" Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn't consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that's what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet he's never heard of named Marilyn Monroe. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them like "bowl of flowers" and "soft drink stand." When Ragle skips town to try to find the cause of these bizarre occurrences, his discovery could make him question everything he has ever known.

Other Goose

Other Goose
Author: J.otto Seibold
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2010-09-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0811868826

It's Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, Miss Muffet, and others like they've never been seen before. Renowned artist J.otto Seibold re-nurseries and re-rhymes over the Mother Goose classics in this must-have collection. Full color.

The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547572484

Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.