Its Philip K. Dicks World. Were just living in it.
Explore the visionary world of Philip K. Dick with our curated list of his most influential books. Dive into dystopian futures, reality-bending tales, and sci-fi masterpieces that define Dick's legacy.
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Confessions of a Crap Artist--Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.)
by Philip K. Dick
Jack Isidore, a young man living with his sister and her family in California, joins a UFO group that believes the world will end on April 23, 1959.
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Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (LOA #183)
by Philip K. Dick
This volume collects five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of science-fiction master Philip K. Dick. The works include "Martian Time-Slip; Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb; Now Wait for Last Year; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"; and "A Scanner Darkly."
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Spook Country
by William Gibson
The “cool and scary”(San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer. spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for “intelligence agent.” country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live. Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn’t exist yet. Bobby Chombo apparently does exist, as a producer. But in his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. And Hollis Henry has been told to find him... “A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.”—The Washington Post Book World
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Mainspring
by Jay Lake
In a world in which the planets are run by a sophisticated clockwork solar system that connects everyday people to the Creator, a young clockmaker's apprentice is appointed by the Archangel Gabriel to rewind the Earth's Mainspring to prevent a disaster.
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Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (LOA #173)
by Philip K. Dick
This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original, mesmerizing, and surprising novels: "The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," and "Ubik."
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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The short happy life of the Brown Oxford
by Philip K. Dick
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We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
by Philip K. Dick
This volume of the classic stories of Philip K. Dick offers an intriguing glimpse into the early imagination of one of science fiction's most enduring and respected names. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's work has continued to mount and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention as well as many films based on his stories and novels. Featuring the story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, which inspired the major motion picture Total Recall, this collection draws from the writer's earliest fiction, written during the years 1952-55. Also included are fascinating works such as The Adjustment Team (basis of the 2011 movie The Adjustment Bureau), Impostor (basis of the 2001 movie), and many others. "A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection." --Kirkus Reviews "More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." --Wall Street Journal "The collected stories of Philip K. Dick are awe-inspiring." --Washington Post
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Divine Invasions
by Lawrence Sutin
An official portrait of the influential novelist's life and career explores how Dick's writings expanded the scope of the science fiction genre, served as the inspirations for blockbuster movies, and influenced the written works of such contemporaries as Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, and David Foster Wallace. Original.
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Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter
by Gabriel Mckee
In Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter, Gabriel McKee gives an overview of Dick's religious experiences and his attempts at communicating them in published works, drawing on Dick's fiction as well as his private journals and personal correspondence
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
by Philip K. Dick
A Los Angeles television celebrity awakens one morning to find there is no record of his existence.
