Philip K. Dick

"Philip K. Dick knew better than anyone how to recognize the disturbances of exile."-Roberto BolañoWhen catastrophic overpopulation threatens Earth, one company offers to teleport citizens to Whale's Mouth, an allegedly pristine new home for happy and industrious émigrés. But there is one problem: the teleportation machine only works in one direction. When Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that some of the footage of happy settlers may have been...

In Beyond the Door, a man buys a cuckoo clock for his wife who has always wanted one. When he catches her cheating on him, the man throws his wife out of the house with her lover. Though he never really cared for the clock, he keeps winding it because he dislikes the silence. But the cuckoo clock, who preferred the wife's company, begins to plot against its owner.

The inspiration for the film Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale, and directed by Len Wiseman. This ebook-only edition of Philip K. Dick's classic short story tells the story of Douglas Quail, an unfulfilled bureaucrat who dreams of visiting Mars, but can't afford the trip. Luckily, there is Rekal Incorporated, a company that lets everyday stiffs believe they've been on incredible adventures. The only problem is that when technicians

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The Philip K. Dick Megapack assembles no less than 15 classic science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick. Included are:

INTRODUCTION: PHILIP K. DICK
EXHIBIT PIECE
BEYOND LIES THE WUB
THE DEFENDERS
THE CRYSTAL CRYPT
BEYOND THE DOOR
SECOND VARIETY
THE EYES HAVE IT
THE GUN
THE VARIABLE MAN
TONY AND THE BEETLES
THE HANGING STRANGER
THE SKULL
PIPER IN THE WOODS
MR. SPACESHIP

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Named one of Time's 100 Best Books, Ubik is a mind-bending, classic novel about the perception of reality from Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in "half-life," a dreamlike...

Combining political intrigue, time travel, family drama, and all the perils that come with being the first at anything, Hugo Award—winning author Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip follows a group of exiled colonists on Mars and the ten-year-old psychic among them, a boy so powerful he not only looks into the future but can send people there. On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land before the UN develops...

Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, the story of an America where thw whole government is a fraud and the President is an android.

From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award—winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the basis for the film Blade Runner Clans of the Alphane Moon explores the meaning of mental illness through the actions of people with clinical disorders and those of the doctors tasked with curing them. For years, the third moon in the Alphane system was used as a psychiatric hospital. But when war broke out between Earth...

Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In "Autofac," Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. "Exhibit Piece" and "The Commuter" feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes:...

The war had been going on for two Terran months, with no sign of a break. The System Senate's difficult position came from the fact that Ganymede was the jump-off point between the System and its precarious network of colonies at Proxima Centauri. All ships leaving the System for deep-space were launched from the immense space cradles on Ganymede. There were no other cradles. Ganymede had been agreed on as the jump-off point, and the cradles had been...