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Praise for The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike:In 1981, Dick re-read his eleven unpublished novels and selected [The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike] as his favorite of the lot. It tells the story of an out-of-place Jewish realtor with a certain simple appeal. The heros principles seem strong and clear, if somewhat eccentrica tragi-comedy where all involved trample blindly on each others sensibilities.LocusWhether writing brilliantly idiosyncratic science fiction or uniquely Dickian contemporary novels, Philip K. Dick was a major American literary talent who deserves an even wider audience than the formidable one he reached in his lifetime. This novel may be (as Dick himself believed) the best of all his unpublished mainstream works.Michael Bishop--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Rick Deckard, experto en el manejo de androides, recibe el encargo de destruir a seis androides rebeldes. Así comienza una alucinante pesadilla tecnológica, una obra maestra que pone en cuestión lo que significa ser humano. En esta novela se basa la película que hizo famoso a Harrison Ford.

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).

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."

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!

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 h

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.

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.

Dans la société futuriste de 1992, le monde est devenu intégralement capitaliste et les chefs d'entreprise sont omnipotents. Le magnat Stanton Mick cherche á lever des capitaux pour mettre au point un vehicule interplanetaire. Ray Hollis dirige une societe de psis, des individus pourvus de facultes psychiques, tandis que Glen Runciter emploie des anti-psis pour contrer leurs intrusions mentales.

Dans une Amérique quadrillée par les milices de Ferris F. Fremont, Nicholas Brady, ami intime de Philip K. Dick, reçoit des messages en provenance de Dieu ou d'extraterrestres qui lui conseillent d'entrer dans la Resistance. Roman posthume anterieur a laaTrilogie divineaqu'il eclaire et nuance.

Philip K. Dick entrelaza en este relato una relación tóxica con una trama sobre robots con conciencia propia, y lo relata todo de un modo implacable a través del prisma de las enfermedades mentales, que no respetan ni a los humanos ni a los robots. El resultado final es una de las obras mas sutilmente poderosas de Dick.

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.