PHILIP KINDRED DICK

Una raccolta di scritti "non fictional" - saggi, diari, riassunti di trame, discorsi, interviste - di uno tra i piu celebri scrittori di science fiction. Fra gli scritti qui raccolti appaiono quelli, teosofici, dedicati alla "descrizione in forma astratta di un nuovo modello di realta", quelli, letterari, in cui si discutono revisioni e continuazioni di romanzi gia pubblicati e, ancora, quelli dedicati al rapporto fra Dick e il cinema (trame, soggetti, sceneggiature).

Dans ce roman inédit jusqu''à ce jour et miraculeusement retrouvé, Philip K. Dick, plus visionnaire que jamais, nous livre la radioscopie d''une Amérique urbaine suffocante à travers le portrait ment

Philip K. Dick hat unsere Vorstellung von der Zukunft gepragt wie kaum ein anderer Schriftsteller. Und Filme wie "Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Scanner Darkly" und "Paycheck", die nach seinen Romanen entstanden sind, haben ein Millionenpublikum begeistert. Langst ist Dick zu einem Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur geworden - mit diesem Sonderband, der die drei bekanntesten Romane Dicks erstmals zusammenfuhrt, wird dies nachhaltig unter Beweis gestellt!

Hamaika narrazio kronologikoki ordenatuta biltzen dut ORDAINAk, Dicken estiloa eta bilakaera hurbilagotik eta zehaztasun handiagoz hautemateko. Hitzaurrea Iban Zaldua.

It''s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.

Según ha escrito Brian W. Aldiss. "El secreto para sobrevivir en el mundo de Philip K. Dick no es intentar escapar a cualquier versión negativa de la realidad, sino solucionar los problemas de la mejor manera posible. El critico, al tratar de descubrir el valor esencial de Dick piensa enseguida en los nombres de Dickens y Kafka, antiguos maestros de la comedia de horror. Marte esta descrito con trazos vivos y precisos: no es el Marte de Edgar Rice Burroughs (escenario de aventuras) ni el de Ray Bradbury (reflejo de Estados Unidos), es una metafora sobrecogedora de la pobreza espiritual".

La historia del obispo Timothy Archer (contada por una superviviente, Angel Archer) es la historia de una adicción (el Santo Grial del momento) entre otras adicciones muy típicamente californianas. Archer, expositor de causas radicales, abogado convertido en clerigo, indaga la verdad de la fe en una nueva traduccion de los manuscritos del Mar Muerto. El suicidio de su hijo lo lleva a practicas espiritistas, y la desaparicion de su amante, a buscar en el desierto de Oriente Medio el hongo que podria probar la verdad historica del cristianismo. La culminacion de la obra del que muchos consideran el mayor de los escritores estadounidenses de ciencia ficcion.

Couverture: Traduit de l''anglais (Etats-Unis) par Alain Dom??rieux

La novela corta y los cuentos de Philip K. Dick muestran la más fértil mente especulativa que distingue sus novelas, más un amor exuberante, casi extravagante, por una impetuosa acción melodramática. El lector descubrira en estas imagenes del futuro reflejos de nuestra propia sociedad, asi como una de las caracteristicas cualidades de Dick: el escalofriante simbolismo de una pesadilla absoluta.

Las criaturas de Titán, la mayor de las lunas de Saturno, adoptan distintas y ambiguas apariencias, y emplean esta capacidad en sus conflictos con los seres terrestres. Después de la gran guerra, a la que han sobrevivido solo unos pocos seres humanos, los combatientes han firmado una tregua. Pero para muchos el conflicto no ha concluido aun y continua en una serie de fantasticas partidas que pueden acabar con lo que queda de la humanidad.

Seven years after the day of the bombs, Point Reyes was luckier than most places. Its people were reasonably normal - except for the girl with her twin brother growing inside her, and talking to her. Their barter economy was working. Their resident genius could fix almost anything that broke down. But they didn't know they were harbouring the one man who almost everyone left alive wanted killed...

Philip K. DickIn 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 on the planet; 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. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.

Illustrator: Herman Vestal

Illustrator: Alex Ebel

''Truth, she thought, as terrible as death but harder to find...''America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese.But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies...