Philip K. Dick - Libros y biografía

The stories within SECOND VARIETY were written between 1952 and 1955, while America was in the grip of McCarthyism.The concerns of the time are reflected in stories such as Second Variety, which tells...

Les bombes étaient finalement tombées. Malgré l’équilibre de la terreur, un homme avait un jour été assez fou pour appuyer sur le bouton. Cependant, dans ce coin perdu de Californie, la vie continuait....

Nous sommes en 2050, et la Terre est entièrement sous la coupe de Ganymédiens. Enfin presque, car dans les monts du Tennessee, des rebelles menés par l’intraitable Percy X résistent encore à l’envahisseur....

Après huit ans d’attente, Seth Morley reçoit son autorisation de transfert sur la planète Delmak-O. Il s’y retrouve avec une douzaine d’autres scientifiques originaires de tous les points de la galaxie....

Stuart Hadley a tout pour être heureux : une belle maison, une femme aimante, un travail épanouissant. Et pourtant, heureux, il ne l’est pas. Ce rêve américain tant vanté, nourri aux mamelles du consumérisme...

Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story,...

A l'image des colonies pénitentiaires de jadis, la population de la lune alphane est le fruit d'une immigration contrôlée. Sauf qu'ici point de bagnards, mais une société uniquement composée de malades...

Rendu célèbre par le cinéma et la télévision (Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Le maître du Haut Château…), Philip K. Dick est l’auteur de plus de cent vingt nouvelles dans lesquelles il explore...

OS CONTOS DE PHILIP K. DICK QUE INSPIRARAM A SÉRIE TELEVISIVA ELECTRIC DREAMS. Philip K. Dick publicou seus primeiros contos no início dos anos 1950, e neles já se notava a natureza inquietante de...

"Philip K. Dick foi o maior explorador da angústia moderna na ficção científica." — New York Daily News Explorando questões filosóficas profundas com sua trama intrincada, personagens envolventes e temas...

At the beginning of his career, Philip K. Dick, whose later work won him widespread acclaim as the world's greatest science fiction writer, wrote a number of short novels which were published as paperback...

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who...

A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figuresSubstance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market....

Written in the late 1950s but unpublished until after his death, this is one of Dick's greatest realistic novelsWhen Roger and Virginia Lindhal enroll their son Gregg in Mrs Alt's Los Padres Valley School...

Philip K Dick’s visionary forerunner to the novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ that became the film Bladerunner, tells the story of Louis Rosen and his love for the daughter of his business...

Una guerra nucleare ha ridotto il pianeta Terra a un ammasso di cenere. Il governo americano è fuggito sulla Luna, lasciando indietro i soldati a combattere una guerra logorante contro la Russia. I russi...

A nuclear war has reduced planet Earth to a pile of ashes. The American government has fled to the Moon, leaving behind soldiers to fight a wearisome war against Russia. The Russians seem to be winning,...

Henry Harris, an army doctor at a garrison on Earth is puzzled by a case of a soldier who returns from the asteroid Y-3, and claims that he's a plant. When several more men return from Y-3, each thinking...

Predictability has come a long way. The computers of the future can tell you if you're going to win a war before you fire a shot. Unfortunately they're predicting perpetual standoff between the Terran...

This e-book only edition brings together the three novels of Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy. VALIS What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s groundbreaking novel, the first book...

The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace—if it could!

Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl ... and the grim red planet was not far behind.

A human brain-controlled spacecraft would mean mechanical perfection. This was accomplished, and something unforeseen: a strange entity called—Mr. Spaceship

Earth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperiled with a biological impossibility—men becoming plants!

It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet. As yet, I haven't done anything about it; I can't think of anything to do. I wrote to the Government,...

Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. But he would make no mistakes because he had the stranger's skull under his arm.

No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war--perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves!

Nothing moved or stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs of life ... and the trespassers had wrecked that for all time. The return journey to pick up the treasure would be a cinch...

He fixed things—clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in the future, where the calculators could not handle him. He was Earth's only hope—and its sure failure!

Larry Thomas bought a cuckoo clock for his wife--without knowing the price he would have to pay.