Philip K Dick

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his...

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his...

New Penguin Essentials edition of Philip K. Dick's haunting vision of the world as it might have been. 'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.' America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils - the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the...

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre, including The Variable Man. This stunning new edition of Philip K. Dick's work includes the influential "Beyond Lies the Wub" and "Second Variety", as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the...

Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before, which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people. He is the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly, he becomes a man with no identity, in a police state where everyone...

World War Terminus devastated the Earth. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard searches for the renegade replicants he is sent to 'retire', while he dreams of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of natural life. The opportunity of a lifetime: kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in...

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the United States divided between the Japanese and the Nazis. In the neutral zone that divides...

Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out. If it hasn't already. Ubik is...

Seven years after the day of the bombs, Point Reyes was luckier than most places. Its people were reasonably normal—except for the girl with her twin brother growing inside her, and talking to her. Their barter economy was working. Their resident genius could fix almost anything that broke down. But they didn't know they were harbouring the one man who...

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, which is far more potent than Can-D. This new...

Ubik by Philip K Dick delves into a perplexing narrative where Glen Runciter might be dead—or perhaps not. An explosion, orchestrated by his business rivals, claims a life. Yet, as Glen's funeral is planned, his grieving employees start receiving baffling messages from him. The situation becomes even more unsettling as the world surrounding them begins to warp and regress, implying...

Based on the stories contained in this volume, the ten-part anthology series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander) and Michael Dinner (Justified, Masters of Sex), with Oscar-nominated Bryan Cranston (Trumbo, Breaking Bad) both executive producing and appearing in the series. Each episode will be a sharp, thrilling standalone...

World War III is raging—or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fifteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all-powerful Protector. Now, someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive lie....

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, which is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens...

As the eagerly anticipated new film BLADE RUNNER 2049 finally comes to the screen, rediscover the world of Blade Runner... World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a...

A few years from now, the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn't seem possible, does it? Welcome to the world of Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist. Philip K. Dick tells a story of desperate love, lethal body odour, and an attempted fascistic takeover of...

Time Out Of Joint tells the story of Ragle Gumm, an ordinary man leading an ordinary life. He makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day — and winning, every day. However, Ragle gradually begins to suspect that his life — indeed his whole world — is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping...

Philip K. Dick's cult novel—now in an official tie-in edition to accompany the new TV series. Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been—the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the...

Dick's best work, and the most memorable alternative world tale...ever written - SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But it's not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of...

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K. Dick's work includes the influential Adjustment Team and The Father Thing, as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the...

Substance D—otherwise known as Death—is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way onto the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorientation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, an undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as...

World War Terminus has left the earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalks, in search of the renegade replicants who are his prey. When he isn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreams of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick gets his...

Dick's best work, and the most memorable alternative world tale...ever written SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But it's not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa...

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K. Dick's work includes the influential Minority Report and Sales Pitch, as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the most influential stories from the 20th...

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential We Can Remember It For You Wholesale and The Electric Ant, as well as a litany of mind-expanding other works. Work your way through some of the...

A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade RunnerOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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...

Named one of Time's 100 Best Books, Ubik is a mind-bending psychological thriller about the perception of reality from Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. "From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from." — Lev Grossman,...

Fourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmark-O; they have nothing in common other than a desire to make a fresh start. They have no idea why they are there and no way of escaping. And then the first murder takes place... A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick immerses readers in a gripping mystery filled with suspense...

This volume contains Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (filmed as Bladerunner), Martian Time Slip, Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and A Scanner Darkly. Taken together, they represent the best of Philip K. Dick's unique imagination. In Dick's writing, nothing is what it seems; our sense of the world's order is fatally undermined, and mass media tells us...

Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly is a semi-autobiographical novel of drug addiction set in a future American dystopia—and the basis for the Hugo Award finalist film starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Robert Downey, Jr. A Scanner Darkly explores a descent into the deep fears of our 24-hour...

In this Hugo Award-winning alternative history classic—the basis for the Amazon Original series—the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West. It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In this dystopian world, we meet...

VALIS is the first novel in a mesmerizing, science-fiction philosophical trilogy by Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner. "Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a...

One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction Sunday Times With a new introduction by Justina Robson Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, which was also a major Hollywood blockbuster...

From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner—Clans of the Alphane Moon explores the meaning of mental illness through the actions of people with clinical disorders and those of the doctors tasked with curing them. For years, the third moon...

Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years prior, which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people. He's the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly, he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a...

A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novella The Unteleported Man, which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In Lies, Inc., fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognise his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring of reality and illusion. In this wry, paranoid vision...

It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right. Part science fiction, part theological detective story—in which God plays both the missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate...

Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people. He's the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a...

Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick transports readers to a desolate Mars, largely forgotten by Earth. The planet remains helpless under the stranglehold of Arnie Kott, who, as the boss of the plumber's union, has a monopoly over the vital water supply. Arnie Kott is obsessed with the past, while the native Bleekmen, poverty-stricken wanderers, possess the ability to see...

Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise. In addition to Minority Report, this exclusive collection includes nine other outstanding short stories by the twentieth century's outstanding...

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick explores the harrowing world of Substance D—otherwise known as Death—arguably the most dangerous drug ever to infiltrate the black market. This potent substance effectively destroys the connections between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorientation and ultimately resulting in complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, an undercover narcotics agent, is on...

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 lily-white Carquinez, Marin County. When he gets into a pointless argument with...

It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself Valis. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right. Part science fiction, part theological detective story in which God plays both the missing person and the perpetrator of the...