books by Philip K. Dick     books:       Ubik103 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1991 My vote for the best PKD novel would be for this one. This is a PKD masterpiece. A strong convoluted story that, unlike many PKD novels, does not trail off but stays strong and sustained to the very end. All the familiar pieces, played as well as he ever did. Paranoia funny and paranoia very dark. The besieged ordinary people of the future who have apartments (conapts, sorry) that know your credit history, doors ...             The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 1)10 reviews Philip K. Dick Citadel, 2002 Essential reading for everyone (and everything) The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford collects some of Dick's earliest writing, including much of his output from 1952-1955. Even writers who don't appreciate his prose style would have to admire his fecundity: some of these stories were written within days of each other, yet each has something unique about it. Fans of Dick will see early brushstrokes that were later transformed into ...             Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?213 reviews Philip K. Dick Del Rey, 1996 Great Book Awesome book, if you like Blade runner you'll love this. (I'm assuming most people saw the movie before reading the book)             The Philip K. Dick Reader27 reviews Philip K. Dick Citadel, 2001 Nicely complements Library of America volumes The esteemed late 20th century Sci-Fi writer Philip K. Dick recently has been the object of much renewed attention. The Library of America released two volumes of his novels, with helpful notes and a chronology of his life. Michael Dirda in his book "Classics for Pleasure" also draws attention to the work of Dick. This collection of his earliest short and medium-length stories (23 in all) nicely ...             The Man in the High Castle168 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1992 What if the Nazis / Japanese Won WWII, the U.S. Conquered & Divided? What makes The Man in the High Castle so compelling is that it portrays a bleak alternate reality that could very well have come to pass. What many people in the modern age forget is that the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy, very nearly won WWII. Furthermore, the United States was not always the dominant power that it is today. In fact, prior to WWII the global military might of ...             We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 2)13 reviews Philip K. Dick Citadel, 2002 Laboratory Of The Strange Philip K. Dick's short stories are the best work of one of the greatest ( science) fiction writers in the history of the genre. His spare style leaves plenty for the imagination, as opposed to those writers who feel it necessary to fill their pages with endless technological detail. His staid characters are straight out of the Eisenhower Years, and are put through hoops such as no one has ...             Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ...19 reviews Philip K. Dick Library of America, 2007 A Great Introduction to the World of Philip K. Dick This is the first of two volumes in the Library of America series containing novels by Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) published during the the 1960's and 1970's. At present, they represent the only volumes of the LOA series devoted to SciFi material. While I had never read any Dick, only heard about him from folks like Michael Dirda in his weekly Wednesday webpage book discussion ...             Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s2 reviews Philip K. Dick Library of America, 2008 Re: Excellent collection As with all the Library of America titles, this collection is superbly edited and presents the best available drafts of the selections. These selections, although less famous than the titles in the earlier Library of America volume, are still interesting, thought-provoking and entertaining to read. I recommend this collection for your own personal library.             Second Variety (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 3)7 reviews Philip K. Dick Citadel Press, 2002 There'll Never Be Another Like Him This book, third in a set of five from Citadel Press (who are doing similar definitive collections of Robert Bloch & Theodore Sturgeon), collects all of Dick's short stories, the vast majority of them from the 50s - not coincidentally, the high-water mark of the sf pulps. All are introduced by later-era sf writers like Tom Disch, Norman Spinrad & this volume's John Brunner; unfortunately, all ...             Valis95 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1991 An important work This novel is to me one of those things that you want people to understand, you want people to see in it the same things you do. It hurts me that this thing that I love so might be considered insignificant to someone else. Such is the nature of our experiance. VALIS will expose you to many interesting ideas regarding philosophy, religion, and reality. It is not the end all be all with regard ...             The Divine Invasion30 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1991 He's on the moon but maybe you're just dreaming about it The second part of Dick's final probing into what he perceived as the nature of God, we're back into more or less straight science-fictional territory. While "VALIS" could be described as a modern-day story with some surrealist touches, this one is set decidedly in the future, kicking off at a colony where the people live in domes. Herb Asher spends most of his time listening to his singing ...             Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said63 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1993 should be highly regarded Philip K. Dick led American science fiction in innovation and daring. This novel has Jason Taverner world famous one day and a nonperson the next day, ie, someone who never even existed. It's a twisted tale as Taverner tries to put it together. It ends a little too easily pat, almost to a cop out, but man, leading up to it is Dick at his crazy best.             Blade Runner(TM) (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)89 reviews Philip K. Dick Del Rey, 1987 So much more than "Blade Runner"! This is NOT the movie. It is bigger, deeper, more meaningful and philosophical -- one of Philip K. Dick's best books ever. (It has been explained to me that the primary significance of the movie "Blade Runner" was that it presented a fully imagined future.) I wish I could get this book with the original title, so much more revealing of the core -- "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (I ...             The Eye of The Sibyl and Other Classic Stories (The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 5)10 reviews Philip K. Dick Citadel, 2000 If I could only recommend 2 Phil Dick books -- This volume has many of the stories from the out-of-print Ballantine "Best of Phil Dick." While his earlier work is more literate, his later style in stories/novels became much looser, but just as enjoyable. The themes here, like his novel "Do androids dream," are more mind-blowing and less reliant on finding a new twist on an old sci-fi theme. "Faith of our fathers," and "I hope I shall arrive ...             Humpty Dumpty in Oakland5 reviews Philip K. Dick Tor Books, 2008 has the deep feel of a well written character driven historical In 1950s California bone tired as he still recovers from a heart attack garage owner Jim Fergesson plans to retire. Meanwhile one of his customers used car salesman cynical Al Miller learns that Jim is investing his retirement fund in a shaky real estate deal that in all probability will wipe the elderly man out. Miller decides to help his friend by getting Jim not to invest in a loser. He ...             Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick14 reviews Philip K. Dick Pantheon, 2002 for PKD novices and acolytes Overall, a very strong and representative collection of PKD's short stories. These shorts in this binding include a lot of old favorites that are arranged chronologically so we can watch PKD's obsessions and themes emerge and unfold and develop. It also allows us to see where he managed to frustrate himself along the way as well. Anyone reading this would do well to read the PKD bio by ...             The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch64 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1991 What stigmata do you carry? This is such a religious novel - it reflects on the nature of God (compassionate, condemning, disinterested?) and the connections we make to God (through the sacrament and lesser rituals). But is there a God at all - a God that isn't just some vast entity in space? And what of our reality - are our experiences as we perceive them at all related to the reality of the physical and energetic world ...             The Minority Report (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 4)18 reviews Philip K. Dick Citadel, 1998 The Unabridged Audio Collection... Keir Dullea does a great job narrating this collection of stories by Philip K Dick. Not only does it have five very good stories, FOUR of them are the basis of Dick movies. First off is "The Minority Report." The idea was the same as the movie, but the story was totally different. I definitely didn't see the end coming... it would have made an interesting movie. Second was "We Can Remember ...             The Transmigration of Timothy Archer21 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1991 My First Phillip K. Dick Novel I got interested in this Author after seeing the film Through A Scanner Darkly. This isn't so much science fiction as it is a feast of ideas. I like that it's in first person and that the main character is a woman. I found the writing very masterful. Also, being a sort of biblical history buff, found the subject matter very intriguing. I'm definitely going to check out his other titles.             A Maze of Death31 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1994 Misery Loves Nothing The title of this novel derives from a reflection by one of the characters that he and his fellow-colonists on the planet Delmak-O can be compared to rats in a maze, unwilling participants in a cruel experiment where death chases them through the corridors and alleys until all of them are gone. This being Philip K. Dick, the truth is far stranger. Unlike most of PKD's other work, however, this ...              search for books androids, archer, castle, classic, collected, divine, dumpty, eldritch, electric, humpty, invasion, minority, novels, oakland, oxford, palmer, philip, policeman, reader, remember, report, runner, second, selected, stigmata, stories, timothy, transmigration, variety, wholesale books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Lemurian Seeds: Hope for Humanity we recommend Great Book leave a comment home  impressum - about us