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Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure... Read More
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 28, 1996
Price: $14.00
"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."
--John Brunner
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 28, 1996
Price: $14.00
"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."
--John Brunner
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .
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... Read more >
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The Man in the High Castle
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $13.95
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $13.95
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany... Read more >
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $14.00
>On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $14.00
>On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the... Read more >
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Ubik
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 3, 1991
Price: $14.00
Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 3, 1991
Price: $14.00
Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again. Read more >
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eBook.
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A Scanner Darkly
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $14.00
Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $14.00
Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's... Read more >
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Valis
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 2, 1991
Price: $14.00
Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 2, 1991
Price: $14.00
Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed... Read more >
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Blade Runner (Movie-Tie-In Edition)
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1987
Price: $7.99
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.
Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found! Read more >
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1987
Price: $7.99
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.
Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found! Read more >
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 3, 1991
Price: $13.95
In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 3, 1991
Price: $13.95
In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary... Read more >
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eBook.
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Lies, Inc.
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novellla The Unteleported Man, which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In Lies, Inc., fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognize his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novellla The Unteleported Man, which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In Lies, Inc., fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognize his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Divine Invasion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 2, 1991
Price: $14.00
n The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 2, 1991
Price: $14.00
n The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Penultimate Truth
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $13.95
What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That’s the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s futuristic novel about political oppression, the show business of politics and the sinister potential of the military industrial complex. This wry, paranoid thriller imagines a future in... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $13.95
What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That’s the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s futuristic novel about political oppression, the show business of politics and the sinister potential of the military industrial complex. This wry, paranoid thriller imagines a future in... Read more >
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eBook.
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: November 5, 2002
Price: $28.00
Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: November 5, 2002
Price: $28.00
Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next... Read more >
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eBook.
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Counter-Clock World
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $12.95
In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick’s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase–a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, “Good-bye,” and part with... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $12.95
In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick’s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase–a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, “Good-bye,” and part with... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $13.95
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $13.95
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Dr. Futurity
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $11.95
Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives. But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an incredibly advanced civilization that zealously embraces death. Now, he is caught between his... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $11.95
Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives. But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an incredibly advanced civilization that zealously embraces death. Now, he is caught between his... Read more >
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eBook.
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Confessions of a Crap Artist
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $13.95
Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $13.95
Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 2, 1991
Price: $14.00
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 2, 1991
Price: $14.00
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and... Read more >
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eBook.
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Time Out of Joint
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $14.95
Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $14.95
Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Crack in Space
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli... Read more >
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eBook.
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Dr. Bloodmoney
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $13.95
Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick’s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $13.95
Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick’s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and... Read more >
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A Maze of Death
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 31, 1994
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 31, 1994
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
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eBook.
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A Scanner Darkly
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $34.95
Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $34.95
Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's... Read more >
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Eye in the Sky
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $13.95
While sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a lab accident. When he regains consciousness, he is in a fantasy world of Old Testament morality gone awry—a place of instant plagues, immediate damnations, and death to all perceived infidels. Hamilton figures out how he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $13.95
While sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a lab accident. When he regains consciousness, he is in a fantasy world of Old Testament morality gone awry—a place of instant plagues, immediate damnations, and death to all perceived infidels. Hamilton figures out how he... Read more >
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Martian Time-Slip
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 30, 1995
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 30, 1995
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
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Solar Lottery
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $12.95
The year is 2203, and the ruler of the Universe is chosen according to the random laws of a strange game under the control of Quizmaster Verrick. But when Ted Bentley, a research technician recently dismissed from his job, signs on to work for Verrick, he has no idea that Leon... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $12.95
The year is 2203, and the ruler of the Universe is chosen according to the random laws of a strange game under the control of Quizmaster Verrick. But when Ted Bentley, a research technician recently dismissed from his job, signs on to work for Verrick, he has no idea that Leon... Read more >
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