The Penultimate Truth
Title | The Penultimate Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Carroll & Graf Pub |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780881844931 |
After U.S. survivors have worked diligently in underground warrens for fifteen years, they begin to doubt the government's pronouncements about the progress of a nuclear war
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
Title | The Exegesis of Philip K Dick PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 1003 |
Release | 2011-11-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0547549253 |
"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius."-Jonathan Lethem 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 dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick's brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick's life and work.
The Penultimate Truth
Title | The Penultimate Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2012-01-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547601352 |
In this dystopian novel from the author of The Man in the High Castle, humanity is forced to live underground while a great secret hides above them. In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they’ve fled. Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return aboveground. But when Nick St. James, president of one anthill, makes an unauthorized trip to the surface, what he finds is more shocking than anything he could imagine. “At a time when most 20th-century science fiction writers seem hopelessly dated, Dick gives us a vision of the future that captures the feel of our time.”—Wired
We Can Build You
Title | We Can Build You PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 067975296X |
Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold. Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick creates an arresting techno-thriller that suggests a marriage of Bladerunner and Barbarians at the Gate.
The Man in the High Castle
Title | The Man in the High Castle PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547572484 |
Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.
The Game-Players of Titan
Title | The Game-Players of Titan PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0679740651 |
Having just lost Berkeley and his wife in a game of Bluff, a bizarre game that has become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of Earth, Pete Garden prepares to play his next opponent, who isn't even human, for stakes that are much higher
The Crack in Space
Title | The Crack in Space PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Dick |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547572999 |
When a repairman accidentally discovers 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 the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world?