Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
ISBN: 1613984553
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Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has killed millions, driving entire species to extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies build incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep...even humans. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids. They're machines, but look, sound, and think like humans

Author: Various
Publisher: Boom Town
ISBN: 9781608867844
Size: 49.41 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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The definitive collection of the illustrated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep It has inspired and expanded minds since its debut in 1968. It served as the source material for the classic sci-fi film Blade Runner. Now, collected for the first time in one comprehensive edition, Philip K. Dick's masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is fully realized in graphic novel form. This definitive volume compiles all 24 issues of the Eisner Award-nominated series illustrated by artist Tony Parker and color artist Blond with lettering by Richard Starkings, and features essays from Jonathan Lethem, Warren Ellis, Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker, Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Isa Dick Hackett, and many more.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345508556
Size: 13.61 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner 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 can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and “retire” them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force. Praise for Philip K. Dick “The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world.”—John Brunner “A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.”—The New York Times “[Philip K. Dick] sees all the sparkling—and terrifying—possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from.”—Rolling Stone

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612195261
Size: 10.51 MB
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Category : LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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An electric collection of interviews--including the first and the last--with one of the 20th century's most prolific, influential, and dazzlingly original writers of science fiction Long before Ridley Scott transformed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick was banging away at his typewriter in relative obscurity, ostracized by the literary establishment. Today he is widely considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. These interviews reveal a man plagued by bouts of manic paranoia and failed suicide attempts; a career fuelled by alcohol, amphetamines, and mystical inspiration; and, above all, a magnificent and generous imagination at work.

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ISBN: 9781509442171
Size: 52.42 MB
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Category : Androids
Languages : en
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"The book that inspired the film Blade Runner, completely transplanted into comics! San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust after the World War has driven entire species to extinction. Enjoy Philip K. Dick's classic sci-fi novel in richly illustrated detail. Plus, enjoy Eternal, a story where humans can continually make clones of themselves, so death is a thing of the past."--

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9781429952644
Size: 73.88 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike was written by Philip K. Dick in the winter and spring of 1960, in Point Reyes Station, California. In the sequence of Dick's work, The Man Whose Teeth was written immediately after Confessions of a Crap Artist; the next book Dick wrote was The Man in the High Castle, the Hugo Award–winning science fiction novel that ushered in the next stage of Dick's career. This novel, Dick said, is about Leo Runcible, "a brilliant, civicminded liberal Jew living in a rural WASP town in Marin County, California." Runcible, a real estate agent involved in a local battle with a neighbor, finds what look like Neanderthal bones and dreams of rising real estate prices because of the publicity. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Monica Murphy
Publisher: EM Publishing
ISBN:
Size: 54.70 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Sarah Harrison is used to strange customers. Working at a lingerie store, she helps bored housewives, spicy sorority girls, repentant husbands -- and everyone in between. Yet no one sparks her interest more than Jared Gaines, the ultra-rich, ultra-sexy businessman who frequents her shop, buying delicate little "gifts" for the women in his life. But one day, Jared sends her a gift from Bliss. Then another--and another. It doesn't matter how thoughtful he is, or how well-chosen the gifts are, or how sexy he is. It's inappropriate, and Sarah is determined to put a stop to it. Or at the very least, she wants to know why. It's the oldest one in the book, of course. He needs a fake girlfriend for the weekend while attending his brother's engagement party. It's a terrible idea. She's certain it could even get her fired. So she absolutely takes him up on it. Next thing Sarah knows, she's in San Francisco, pretending to be in love with Jared. Not that it's a hardship. Except that the real feelings in their pretend relationship soon have her in over her head. Is he just faking it, or do they have their own shot at bliss?

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781976884061
Size: 23.51 MB
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Philip Kindred Dick, born December 16, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, and died March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, was an American science fiction writer of novels, short stories, and science fiction essays that explored philosophical, social, and political themes. During his lifetime, he received several literary prizes, such as the Hugo Award for the novel The Man in the High Castle, and the John Wood Campbell Memorial Award for the novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick spent most of his career in near-poverty, but his contribution to science fiction is momentous, and some of his works have been adapted into movies to become cult films: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly ... In 2007, Philip K. Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.Supported by his wife, he began in 1952 a career as a professional writer; his beginnings were ignored by the literary world, which looked with caution at this author whose scientific concepts were rather odd and the style far from flawless. But his short stories, like Beyond Lies the Wub, Mr. Spaceship, Second Variety, to name only the best known, were well received by readers of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazines; this Philip K. Dick Omnibus (Illustrated with 48 original illustrations by Robert Schoolcraft) showcases ten of his early stories for your reading pleasure.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547724756
Size: 43.25 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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"A funny, horribly accurate portrait of a life in California in the Fifties."—Rolling Stone Jack Isidore doesn't see the world like most people. According to his brother-in-law Charlie, he’s a crap artist, obsessed with his own bizarre theories and ideas, which he fanatically records in his many notebooks. He is so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But while Fay and Charlie Hume put on a happy face for the world, they prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack's but a great deal uglier. Their constant fighting and betrayals threaten their own marriage and the relationships of everyone around them. When they bring Jack into their home, he finds himself in the middle of a maelstrom of suburban angst from which he might not be able to escape. Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's most accomplished novels, and the only non–science fiction novel published in his lifetime.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9780575084636
Size: 67.54 MB
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Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Five of Philip K. Dick's best novels in one fantastic value volume: the best of SF's visionary master 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 nothing but artful lies. Films such as THE MATRIX and THE TRUMAN SHOW would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.

Author: Jim Henson
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
ISBN: 1613984189
Size: 77.77 MB
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Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Inspired by folklore from around the world and all told in the spirit of Jim Henson's beloved beloved television series, this hardcover collects the watercolor story of "The Magic Swan Goose and the Lord of the Forest" from S.M. Vidaurri (Iron: Or, the War After), Spera artist Kyla Vanderklugt's haunting tale of the snow witch, Matthew Dow Smith's tale of a man shipwrecked on an island of witches, and the unproduced The Storyteller teleplay from The Jim Henson Company Archives, adapted by Jeff Stokely (Six-Gun Gorilla). Features an all-new cover illustration by Sonny Liew (The Shadow Hero) and the never-before-seen, unproduced The Storyteller teleplay from The Jim Henson Company Archives.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547572557
Size: 64.40 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Palmer Eldritch returns from the edge of the universe with a drug called Chew-D for the colonists of Mars who are under threat of god-like or satanic psychics that threaten to wage war against the human soul.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547572999
Size: 47.18 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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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, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr. Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress there; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other Earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547572417
Size: 76.90 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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The first book in Philip K. Dick's final trilogy (followed by The Divine Invasion andThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer), VALIS encapsulates many of the themes that Dick was obsessed with over the course of his career. A disorienting and bleakly funny novel,VALIS (which stands for Vast Active Living Intelligence System) is about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip Dick); the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser.VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime. Taking place in the same universe as Dick's soon-to-be-published Exegesis,VALIS is a dense novel, but one that is absolutely essential to understanding the author's off-kilter worldview. Much like Dick himself, the reader is left wondering what is real, what is fiction, and what the price is for divine inspiration.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806518565
Size: 50.13 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Gathers twenty-four science fiction stories, including "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," "Second Variety," "The Golden Man," and "The Last of the Masters"

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547727461
Size: 73.51 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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“I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning.”—Fantasy and Science Fiction When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy. Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious take downs. Eye in the Sky blends the thrills and the jokes to craft a startling morality lesson hidden inside a comedy.