Philip K Dick
"A Scanner Darkly is about a descent into the deep fears of our 24-hour consumer society: the twilight of intellectual and emotional collapse...A...
Philip K. Dick stories always bring a touch of the unexpected to the age-old sci-fi formula. In Beyond the Door, Dick spins the tale of a thoughtful gift that holds unspeakable secrets. Though protagonist Larry Thomas had only the best intentions when he picked out the tchotchke for his wife, it's a decision he'll always regret.
The discovery of mysterious gateway leads to a new world full of dangerous possibilities in this science fiction tale from an iconic author.
When a repairman accidentally finds a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of
...6) The Gun
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 ... they smiled.
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
Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes stories that will make you lough, cringe...and stop and think.
9) Blade Runner: Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Blade Runner Series, Book 1
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 build incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds,...
10) The Variable Man
Time travel, interplanetary war, technology races between enemy nations—this early novella from science fiction mastermind Philip K. Dick has something for every fan of the genre. In the story, an increasingly heated conflict between two outer-space civilizations is impacted by an unlikely figure—the time-traveling 'variable man' of the tale's title.
Under extreme duress, the human mind can come up with an array of impossibly complex coping mechanisms. Is that what's behind the strange epidemic that army physician Henry Harris has noticed overtaking soldiers who have returned from the distant celestial body known as Asteroid Y-3? Harris makes a trip to the asteroid to figure things out—and seems to fall prey to the 'delusion' himself. Fans of Philip K. Dick's unique brand of suspenseful
...When an interviewer asked Phillip K. Dick "What is the most important quality for a writer to have?" he replied "A sense of indignation... A writer writes because it's his response to the world. It's a natural process, like respiration... The capacity for indignation is the most important thing for a creative person. Not the aesthetic capacity but the capacity for indignation... And especially indignation at the treatment afforded other people.
...In a 1977 speech, Phillip K. Dick said "Once in a great while, [a novelist] happens by chance onto a thoroughly stunning idea new to him that he hopes will turn out to be new to everyone else." In this collection of five stories, all first published in the 1950s, Dick explores a number of truly interesting ideas. In "Small Town" a man creates a perfect scale model of his own town, as a means of escaping his unbearable reality. In "Human Is" the
...Here are "The Defenders," in which mankind has taken refuge beneath the Earth's surface, leaving all-out war to robots … "Beyond Lies the Wub," in which a highly philosophical Martian creature finds itself on the wrong end of the dinner table ... "The Crystal Crypt," in which the last Terran ship from Mars finds terrorists aboard ... and "Beyond the Door," a most unusual story in which an abusive husband
...17) Paycheck
Tieing in to the major motion picture of the same name starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman and opening on Christmas Day 2003, an unabridged edition of the short story Paycheck, penned by one of the greatest names in science fiction
Electronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life—except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction. Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of
...When asked by an interviewer 'Why is there Science Fiction?' Phillip K. Dick responded 'There is SF because the human brain craves sensory and intellectual stimulation before anything else, and the eccentric view provides unlimited stimulation, the eccentric view and the invented world.... The function of SF psychologically is to cut the reader loose from the actual world that he inhabits...' And cut us loose he does. But never disappoints. This
...20) The Skull
Travel backward and forward in time — literally — in this thought-provoking tale from science fiction master Philip K. Dick. A prisoner is given the opportunity to regain his freedom if he accepts a dangerous mission that could change the course of history. He accepts — but has no idea how profound the consequences of his decision will be.