Diez relatos del maestro de la ciencia ficción del siglo XX. Electric Dreamsde Philip K. Dick es la nueva serie de televisión basada en los relatos incluidos en esta antología. La serie de diez capít
Los caracteres de El hombre en el castillo no son sólo productos de la imaginación sino también manifestaciones de un sistema de fuerza en el que el I Ching obra como un nexo análogo a un polo magnético ... La mejor novela de ciencia ficcion mas consistentemente brillante de este escritor. Ante todo por la verosimilitud con que Dick ha elaborado una ingeniosa estructura basica (unos Estados Unidos derrotados en la segunda guerra mundial y que han sido divididos en tres partes: las costas del Atlantico y del Pacifico respectivamente ocupadas por alemanes y japoneses, y una zona tapon entre dos esferas de influencia); luego por la absoluta originalidad de la presuncion basica, los alemanes ganaron la segunda guerra, aunque el Libro de los Cambios informa, sin embargo, que esta amarga derrota no ha ocurrido en el mundo real.
Episcopal bishop Timothy Archer is haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress, and must cope with the implications of the discovery of a religious artefact. These events drive him into a quest for the identity of Christ. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is Philip K. Dick's last completed novel and a learned, moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief.
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
La novela que inspiró la obra maestra Blade Runner.En el año 2021 la guerra mundial ha exterminado a millones de personas. Los supervivientes codician cualquier criatura viva, y aquellos que no pueden permitirse pagar por ellas se ven obligados a adquirir replicas increiblemente realistas. Las empresas fabrican incluso seres humanos. Rick Deckard es un cazarrecompensas cuyo trabajo es encontrar androides rebeldes y retirarlos, pero la tarea no sera tan sencilla cuando tenga que enfrentarse a los nuevos modelos Nexus-6, practicamente indistinguibles de los seres humanos.
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.
Partez sur Mars et joignez-vous à la guerre du rexénoïde, emparez-vous du vaisseau fabuleux des Ganymédiens, rencontrez le vétéran de la guerre Terre-Vénus à venir, pilotez un astronef doué de vie, échappez à l'épidémie qui frappe l'astéroïde Y-3 fraîchement colonisé, trouvez un refuge pour l'espèce humaine en mal d'espace vital, résolvez l'énigme du canon planétaire... Douze récits, autant de preuves éloquentes que le chantre des futurs incertains est aussi un grand maître du space-opera.
Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to practice in a world full of the maladjusted. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has never met. Richard Kongrosian refuses to see anyone because he is convinced his body odor is lethal. And the fascistic Bertold Goltz is trying to overthrow the government. With wonderful aplomb, Philip K. Dick brings this story to a crashing conclusion and in classic fashion shows there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see.
World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on 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. Now the search begins to find out why.
