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A Maze of Death
Early in the 22nd century, 14 strangers find themselves assigned to the planet Delmak-O, but the mission plans get wiped out, so no one knows what the...

A Scanner Darkly
"Fred" is an undercover narcotics agent for the Orange County Sheriff's Office. As "Bob Arctor," he lives in a messy pad with a bunch of other druggie...

Blade Runner
Blade Runner the film, the superb sci-fi Frankensteinian futurescape has given this book a new lease of life, as well as a new cover. The 1968 book in...

Clans of the Alphane Moon
Some years before, aliens of the Alpha star system lost a war with Earth, which placed a hospital for the mentally ill on one of the Alpha moons. It's...

Counter-Clock World
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
"DADOES" is ostensibly the story of Rick Deckard, a worldly, experienced bounty hunter sent to capture a group of escaped replicants (androids). The ...



Dr. Bloodmoney
Seven years after nuclear war destroyed much of society in 1981, people are scrabbling to survive in the Bay Area. Bonny Keller is a somewhat promiscu...

Dr. Futurity
Dr. James Parsons is plucked from his own time, by an unknown force and for unknown reasons, and lands in a world immensely different from his own. H...

Eye in the Sky
On Oct. 2, 1959, missile engineer Jack Hamilton and his wife Marsha are touring the proton beam deflector of the Belmont (California) Bevatron when a ...

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Philip K Dick's 1974 masterpiece Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, is set in the near furure (1988!), where Universities have become prisons, people a...

Galactic Pot-Healer
An unemployed potter in a near future earth is visited by the manifestation of an alien from a far off planet. The alien is seeking help lifting a cat...

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Lies, Inc. (The Unteleported Man)
Vintage, Mar 2004, 12.00, 202 pp. ISBN: 1400030080 To control the aggressiveness of citizens living on top of one another in crowded file cabi...

Martian Time-Slip
Jack Bohlen is one of the best repairmen among the sparsely populated colonies on Mars, circa 1994. Arnie Kott, the wheeling-and-dealing head of the p...

Now Wait For Last Year
The setting is Earth, which actually is a lost colony of our mother planet, at war with an insect life form. An artificial surgeon who is in his wife...

Our Friends from Frolix 8
It's 2135, and Earth is ruled by a coalition of 6,000 "New Men" (mutants with hugely increased brain capabilities) and 4,000 "Unusuals" (individuals o...

Radio Free Albemuth
A posthumously published companion volume to Dick's famous VALIS trilogy (VALIS, The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer), Radio...

Solar Lottery
In the year 2203, power is transferred through a random lottery that picks the Quizmaster, the most powerful position on Earth. Challengers may be cho...

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The Cosmic Puppets
Ted Barton returns to his hometown only to find it very much changed. He then gets into battles with huge mountain-high beings who represent the force...

The Crack in Space
In a near future, the american election is approaching. Jim Briskin, the black candidate of the minorities, must find new ideas to be elected. Then co...

The Divine Invasion
Conceived on the planet CY30-CY30B, Manny is still in the womb when his mother Rybys and father Herb return to Earth. In a car collision, Rybys is kil...

The Game-Players of Titan
After wars between China and the US wiped out all but several million on Earth, the inhabitants of Titan -- known familiarly as "vugs" -- found it eas...

The Ganymede Takeover
Later in the 21st century, the Ganymedians will have conquered the Earth. They look like big worms, they are telepathists and consider the human peopl...

The Man In The High Castle
The Japanese and Germans won the Second World War in 1947. Now it is 1962, and they are still jockeying subtly for power over their halves of the worl...

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The Man Who Japed
In the year 2114, Allen Purcell heads his own private research agency in Newer York. Ever since the late 20th century revolution headed by Major Jules...

The Penultimate Truth
Fifteen years ago, governments of the Earth, fearing a nuclear apocalypse, have agreed to send the entire population under ground. Fortunetely no majo...

The Simulacra
The year is 2041. All entertainment is contracted to the White House (television is only educational/informational now), where the First Lady, lovely ...

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch takes place in a not too distant future where the Earth is becoming increasingly hot, and many people are forced...

The World Jones Made
Jones is a tryannical ruler who must be disposed of. It is very difficult, however, as he seems to know his aggressors' every move. For Jones has a s...

The Zap Gun
In 1992, the two power blocs on Earth, West-Bloc and Peep-East, achieved an uneasy balance in which they spent most of their time fooling their own ci...

Time Out of Joint
This is an older PKD work written in '59 but well worth a read today. It sets up the the theme of Man vs. Reality which became prevelant throughout a...

Ubik
UBIK is a book written by Philip K. Dick in 1969. 1992. There is a latent war going on between Glen Runciter, head of Runciter associates, an organ...

Valis
This late (1980) novel mixes autobiography and science fiction, drug trips and theologic speculation, into a bewildering brew. Horselover Fat, trouble...

Vulcan's Hammer
A world government has finally been achieved, after many years of warring and turmoil, earth is united under the governing force of Unity, the worldwi...

We Can Build You
It is 1982. Louis Rosen and Maury Rock are partners in a faltering keyboard factory in Oregon. Maury's 18-year-old daughter Priscilla (who has been ho...

World of Chance
Dick's story, published in 1956, bears an uncomfortable resemblance to present-day circumstances. In World of Chance, a few corporate powers control t...

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