A prescient tale of political satire set in a near future America by a master of the genre.
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Philip K. Dick
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 303 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1996–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Short Stories by Philip K. Dick. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
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303 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1996–2026.
An idea that predates both THE TRUMAN SHOW and THE MATRIX from one of SF's greats.
By the author of BLADE RUNNER and MINORITY REPORT
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, which is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch. THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH is, by universal consent, one of his three key novels, and the book in which he first took his perennial interest in the fragile nature of reality to a new level of imaginative intensity.
Counter-Clock World
Philip K. Dick
Harpercollins Publishers
2002
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Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning â?? Timeâ??s Arrowâ?? by as much as twenty years, Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Philip K Dick
Orion Publishing Co
2001
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Another classic novel from the world's greatest writer of science fiction
Gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War.
When Pete Garden, a particularly suicidal member of the Pretty Blue Fox game-playing group, loses his wife and his deed to Berkeley, he stumbles upon a bigger, more sinister version of the game of Bluff. The telepathic, slug-like Vugs of Titan are the players and at stake is the Earth itself.
Classic science fiction from the master
Jälleen kerran Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) johdattaa lukijansa maailmaan, jossa vain harva asia on siten kuin näyttää ja itsestään selvä on epävarmaa epätodennäköisempää. Siinä maailmassa mennyt, nykyinen ja tuleva kietoutuvat toisiinsa pyörryttävänä ryöppynä. Maa ja sen voimakas liittolainen Lilitähti käyvät sotaa iljettäviä, ahnaita ja raakoja reegejä vastaan. Taistelu sujuu päällisin puolin hyvin, mutta miksi lilitähteläiset vaativat Maalta aina vain enemmän varoja ja työvoimaa? Kuka sodassa onkaan voitolla? Ovatko reegit niin pahoja ja lilitähteläiset niin hyviä kuin lilitähteläiset antavat ymmärtää? Parhaiten sen tietää Maan johtajaksi ja ylipäälliköksi valittu Gino Molinari. Hän on myös ainoa, joka voi vaikuttaa Maan kohtaloon. Edellyttäen, että häntä ei murhata. Ja edellyttäen, että häntä ei ole murhattu jo kauan sitten. Ja edellyttäen, että kukaan ei ole jo tehnyt hänen tulevaa murhaansa.
A classic tale of artificial worlds by one of the great SF writers
A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures.
Philip K. Dick is the bestselling author of MINORITY REPORT and BLADE RUNNER
Radio Free Albemuth
Philip K. Dick
Harpercollins Publishers
1999
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A preliminary to Dickâ??s masterwork, Valis, in which Phil appears as an explicitly named autobiographical character for the first time. Soon to be a major new film.
Philip K. Dick has established himself as a major figure in American literature. The landscape of his imagination features a wealth of concepts and fictional worlds: Nazi-rule in a postwar nightmare; androids and the unification of man and machine; and an existence that no longer follows the logic of reality. His vision has shaped the way we perceive the past and present and how we look to the future. This first-time collection assembles his nonfiction writings (the bulk of which either have never before been published or have appeared only in obscure and out-of-print publications) - essays, journals, speeches, and interviews. In these writings he explores issues ranging from the merging of physics and metaphysics to the potential influences of "virtual" reality and its consequences to a plot-scenario for a potential episode of "Mission: Impossible," to the challenge that fundamental "human" values face in the age of technology and spiritual decline. This collection is at once penetrating and entertaining. It is sure to reconfirm Philip K. Dick not only as an important science-fiction writer but also as an explorative thinker.
It was as good as a real Abe Lincoln...or as bad, if you looked at it that way. Going into simulacra production was not the obvious step for a firm hitherto devoted to the manufacture of electronic organs, but business was bad.
Aika on kääntynyt ympäri: vanhukset nousevat kuolleista kasvaakseen keski-iän ja nuoruuden halki lapsiksi ja palaavat lopulta äidin kohtuun. Tässä maailmassa Kirjaston edustajat keräävät käsiinsä painettua sanaa hävittääkseen tiedot kaikesta, joka on muuttumassa koskaan tapahtumattomaksi. Eräänä päivänä haudan takaa palaa karismaattinen uskonnollinen johtaja. Hänen jäljillään ovat opetuslasten ja Kirjaston lisäksi monet muut. He pelkäävät, että rotu- ja uskonkiistat johtavat uuteen sisällissotaan. Moni haluaisi hänen kuolevan uudelleen ja tällä kertaa lopullisesti... "Kenelläkään hänen sukupolvensa kirjoittajalla ei ole ollut yhtä suurta älyllistä vaikutusta. Hän on jättänyt jälkensä muistojemme lisäksi mielikuvitukseemme."- Brian W. Aldiss
Clans of the Alphane Moon
Philip K. Dick
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
1996
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No man in their rightful mind would kill their wife miles from home. Chuck Rittersdorf has recruited some robot help, and now, in the madness and dysfunction of the Alphane moon, there seems no better place to carry out his cruel plans unless he too is part of a much larger conspiracy. Alpha Centauri, a star within the closest star system to earth, has several orbiting moons, among which is Alpha III M2. On this remote moon, a colony, originally set up to provide respite for the mentally ill is about to become the focus of a secret invasion plan. Among them is Chuck Rittersdorf, a 21st century CIA robot programmer, who has decided to kill his own wife via a remote control simulacrum. He enlists the aid of a telepathic Ganymedean slime mould called Lord Running Clam, an attractive female police officer and various others both witting and unwitting. But when Chuck finds himself in the midst of an interplanetary spy ring on the Alphane moon inhabited entirely by certified maniacs, his personal revenge plans begin to awry as the nature of reality itself is called into question in this brilliantly inventive tale of interstellar madness, murder and violence.
Exiled for 2,000 years God must retake the Earth from the clutches of his nemesis using a man caught between life and death as His vessel.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Del Rey Books
1996
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A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade RunnerOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They've even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and "retire" them. But when cornered, androids fight back--with lethal force. Praise for Philip K. Dick "The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."--John Brunner "A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet."--The New York Times " Philip K. Dick] sees all the sparkling--and terrifying--possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from."--Rolling Stone