Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (LOA #183)

Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (LOA #183)
Title Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (LOA #183) PDF eBook
Author Philip K. Dick
Publisher Library of America Philip K. D
Pages 1160
Release 2008-07-31
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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This volume collects five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of science-fiction master Philip K. Dick. The works include "Martian Time-Slip; Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb; Now Wait for Last Year; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"; and "A Scanner Darkly."

Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (LOA #173)

Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (LOA #173)
Title Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (LOA #173) PDF eBook
Author Philip K. Dick
Publisher Library of America Philip K. D
Pages 856
Release 2007-05-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original, mesmerizing, and surprising novels: "The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," and "Ubik."

The Philip K. Dick Reader

The Philip K. Dick Reader
Title The Philip K. Dick Reader PDF eBook
Author Philip K. Dick
Publisher Citadel Press
Pages 436
Release 1997
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780806518565

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Includes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next "More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." --The Wall Street Journal The Philip K. Dick Reader Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This collection includes some of Dick's earliest short and medium-length fiction, including We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), Second Variety (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), Paycheck, The Minority Report, and twenty more.

Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels (LOA #193)

Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels (LOA #193)
Title Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels (LOA #193) PDF eBook
Author Philip K. Dick
Publisher Library of America Philip K. D
Pages 874
Release 2009-07-30
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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The third and final volume of an overview of the author's work features novels written during his later years, including "A Maze of Death" and "The Divine Invasion, " when the themes of religious revelation became predominant.

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219)

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219)
Title Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219) PDF eBook
Author Ambrose Bierce
Publisher Library of America
Pages 1064
Release 2011-09-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1598531832

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A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. Can Such Things Be? brings together "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "The Damned Thing," "The Moonlit Road," and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. The Devil's Dictionary, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. In Bits of Autobiography, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable "What I Saw of Shiloh," he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S. T. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

The Philip K. Dick Collection

The Philip K. Dick Collection
Title The Philip K. Dick Collection PDF eBook
Author Philip K. Dick
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2009-10-15
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1598530496

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Collects thirteen definitive works by the eminent science-fiction master, in a chronologically arranged, three-volume boxed set that includes such titles as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (LOA #155)

H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (LOA #155)
Title H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (LOA #155) PDF eBook
Author H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher Library of America
Pages 1118
Release 2005-02-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1598532804

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An extensive collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s greatest works of horror and dread, from his early stories to his major classics like “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and At the Mountains of Madness In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work. Early stories such as “The Outsider,” “The Music of Erich Zann,” “Herbert West–Reanimator,” and “The Lurking Fear” demonstrate Lovecraft's uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and non-human. “The Horror at Red Hook” and “He” reveal the fascination and revulsion Lovecraft felt for New York City; “Pickman's Model” uncovers the frightening secret behind an artist's work; “The Rats in the Walls” is a terrifying descent into atavistic horror; and “The Colour Out of Space” explores the eerie impact of a meteorite on a remote Massachusetts valley. In such later works as “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Whisperer in Darkness,” “At the Mountains of Madness,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and “The Shadow Out of Time,” Lovecraft developed his own nightmarish mythology in which encounters with ancient, pitiless extraterrestrial intelligences wreak havoc on hapless humans who only gradually begin to glimpse “terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein.” Moving from old New England towns haunted by occult pasts to Antarctic wastes that disclose appalling secrets, Lovecraft's tales continue to exert a dread fascination. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.