Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1328995062

Short stories originally published from 1953 to 1955.

Human Is?

Human Is?
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

As our culture becomes ever more fluid, the world is finally catching up with even the most bizarre of Philip K. Dick's imaginings. Twenty five years after his death we are living in his world, as this collection of his best short fiction illustrates.

The Father-Thing

The Father-Thing
Author: Philip K Dick
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473206685

THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as Foster, You're Dead a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and The Golden Man, a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.

Foster, You're Dead

Foster, You're Dead
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Smyth Press
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781447478515

This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1955 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Foster, You're Dead' is a short story about a man who refuses to buy a bomb shelter during a war with the Soviet Union. Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. Dick and his family moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco when he was young, and later on to Washington DC following his parents divorce. Dick attended Elementary school and then a Quaker school before the family moved back to California. It was around this time that Dick began to take an active interest in the science fiction genre, reading his first magazine 'Stirring Science Stories', at age twelve. Dick married five times between 1959 and 1973, and had three children. He sold his first story in 1951 and from that point on he wrote full-time, selling his first novel in 1955. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. After his death, many of his stories made the transition to the big screen, with blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report being based on his works.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1975
Genre: Androids
ISBN: 9781615233595

By 2021, the Terminus War had driven mankind off-planet and entire species into extinction. Now only the rich can afford living creatures; others may buy amazingly realistic simulacrae: horses, cats, sheep ... Even humans. These artificial people are so advanced it's impossible to tell them from true men and women--except for their lack of empathy. Without empathy, androids can--and do--kill their owners and blend into society, so they're illegal on Earth. It's Rick Deckard's job to find these rogues and "retire" them. But "andys" tend to fight back--with deadly results.

Wrinkles in Time

Wrinkles in Time
Author: George Smoot
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2007-09-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0061344443

Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science," a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. In his search he struggled against time, the elements, and the forces of ignorance and bureaucratic insanity. Finally, after years of research, Smoot and his dedicated team of Berkeley researchers succeeded in proving the unprovable—uncovering, inarguably and for all time, the secrets of the creation of the universe. Wrinkles in Time describes this startling discovery that would usher in a new scientific age—and win Smoot the Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick

The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick
Author: Kyle Arnold
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199743258

The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick, written by a psychologist, investigates the inner world of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. In 1974, Dick was beset by religious visions, and warned police he was an android. The book explores whether Dick's experience was a spiritual awakening or caused by mental illness.

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 1003
Release: 2011-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0547549253

"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 final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick's brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick's life and work.

Ubik

Ubik
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547572298

A mind-bending, classic Philip K. Dick novel about the perception of reality. Named as one of Time's 100 best books.

Electric Dreams

Electric Dreams
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Ulverscroft Collections
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2018-12
Genre: Humanity
ISBN: 9781444839524

A man at a train station first requests a destination which does not exist - then winks out of existence in a moment. The captain of an interstellar travel ship is hired to take a passenger to Earth - that legendary planet which never existed. A cynical father refuses to purchase a bomb shelter for his family - though his son is terrified of perishing in an upcoming war. The wife of a man recently returned from a different planet is convinced his mind has been taken over by some other being - but finds this new husband much preferable to the old one...