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Rick Deckard est le meilleur élément de la brigade spéciale des blade runners, chargée d'exterminer les androïdes qui s'infiltrent sur Terre. Suite a l'arrivée de huit Nexus 6 qui se sont enfuis de Mars après avoir tué leurs geôliers, Deckard est chargé de supprimer ces robots d'apparence humaine.

Includes the stories that inspired the movies "Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck," and "Next" More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people s minds. "The Wall Street Journal"The Philip K. Dick Reader Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick s works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for "The Man in the High Castle." In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"This collection includes some of Dick s earliest short and medium-length fiction, including "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale "(the story that inspired the motion picture "Total Recall"), "Second Variety "(which inspired the motion picture "Screamers"), "Paycheck, The Minority Report," and twenty more."

An official tie-in edition of Philip K Dick's dazzling speculative novel to accompany the new TV series, executive produced by Ridley Scott. Philip K Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York, the Japanese control California and the African continent is virtually wiped out. In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers, lives the author of an underground bestseller. His book offers a new vision of reality - an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated - giving hope to the disenchanted. Does 'reality' lie with him, or is his world just one among many others? "The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet." (Rolling Stone). "Dick's finest book, and one of the very best science fiction novels ever published." (Eric Brown).

Description: With a Preface by the Author and an Introduction by Roger Zelazny.Readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dicks works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.This collection draws from the writers earliest short and medium-length fiction (including several previously unpublished stories), written during the years 1952-1955, and features such fascinating stories as Paycheck (adapted as a major motion picture starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman), Beyond Lies the Wub, The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, The Variable Man, and many others. Here, readers will find Dicks initial explorations of the themes he so brilliantly brought to life in his later work.

A collection of Philip K. Dick's earliest works features "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," in which Doug Quail, unable to afford a trip to Mars, pays a visit to Rekal to have memories implanted.

Una de las mejores novelas de Philip K. Dick, y sin duda la más leída, esta obra es una alucinante pesadilla tecnológica, cuyo tema principal es el impreciso límite entre lo natural y lo artificial.

ncludes the stories that inspired the major motion pictures Total Recall and The Adjustment Bureau “The collected stories of Philip K. Dick are awe-inspiring.” —Washington Post Countless readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. 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. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle and in the last year of his life, the now-classic film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep? More recently, Dick’s short story The Minority Report inspired a Steven Spielberg movie as well as a TV series. The classic stories of Philip K. Dick offer an intriguing glimpse into the early imagination of one of science fiction’s most enduring and respected names. “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 With an Introduction by Norman Spinrad

Glen Runciter ha muerto. ¿O lo han hecho todos los demás? Esta cáustica comedia metafísica de muerte y salvación (servida en cómodo aerosol) es un tour de force de amenaza paranoica y diversión sin trabas, en la que los fallecidos dan consejos comerciales, compran su siguiente encarnación y corren continuamente el riesgo de morir de nuevo. Philip K. Dick no alcanzó la cúspide de su fama hasta después de su muerte. Antes de ella, nos había ofrecido ya obras tan famosas como El hombre en el castillo, ¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas? y Ubik, considerada la mejor de todas ellas.

Al ascender a la estratosfera, Jack Hamilton miró hacia la Tierra, una enorme bola con una pequeña masa de materia incasdescente que orbita a su alrededor... ¡el Sol! ¿Era acaso el antiguo universo geocentrico en que todos los cuerpos celestes giraban en torno a una Tierra estatica? Pero de pronto descubriria que lo que estaba viendo era un ojo, un ojo gigantesco en el cielo. Hamilton se encontraba atrapado en otro mundo, creado por una mente enferma. Y de este mundo no habia escapatoria posible.

Glen Runciter está morto. Ou não? Alguém morreu na explosão orquestrada pelos seus rivais de negócios mas mesmo depois do seu funeral ser marcado os seus empregados continuaram a receber mensagens de