Philip K Dick
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In 1950s San Francisco, as Jim Ferguson, an elderly garage owner with a heart condition prepares to retire and sell his business, he is offered the deal of a lifetime by record-company owner Chris Harman, but Al Miller, a somewhat irresponsible mechanic who works in Jims Garage, believes that Harman is a crook and sets out to protect his mentor.
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"Philip K. Dick: (1928-1982) was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. The five novels collected in this volume - a successor to Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s - Offer an overview of the range of this science-fiction master." "Martian Time-Slip (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red Planet where the...
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"A Maze of Death" (1970), is a thriller about a group of colonists forced to survive on a hostile new planet, and forced to not only confront one another, but also the nature of God. "VALIS" (1981) is the story of a man confronting a Vast Active Living Intelligence System. "The Divine Invasion" (1981) features an off-world colonist who is sent back to Earth, and into the middle of an apocalyptic war between Good and Evil, by a local alien. "The Transmigration...
30) Vintage PKD
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A master of science fiction, a voice of the changing counterculture, and a genuine visionary, Philip K. Dick wrote about reality, entropy, deception, and the plight of being alive in the modern world. Through his remarkable career Dick has established himself as a writer of the first order and his dreams of the future have proven to be eerily prophetic and even more prescient than when he wrote them.
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This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas including Dick's first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub," together with such landmark tales as "The Preserving Machine," in which an attempt to preserve our fragile cultural heritage takes an unexpected turn, "The Variable Man," a brilliantly imagined novella encompassing war, time travel, and the varied uses of technology, and the title story, in which Shadrach Jones, owner of a dilapidated...
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The collection contains eighteen stories and novellas written between 1954 and 1963, years in which Dick produced some of his most memorable work, including such novels as Martian Time Slip and the Hugo Award-winning The Man in the High Castle. Included here are Autofac, a post-apocalyptic tale in which humans share the devastated Earth with the machines they have created but no longer fully control; The Mold of Yancy, a portrait of a world reduced...