Philip K Dicks legendariska självbiografiska roman VALIS i översättning av Andreas Vesterlund och med efterord av John-Henri Holmberg. I mars 1974 är Philip K Dick med om något högst extraordinärt. Han öppnar sin dörr för att ta emot en ung kvinna som sänts ut av apoteket med en förpackning värktabletter åt honom. I samma stund som han öppnar dörren reflekteras solljuset i kvinnans halssmycke - utformat som en gyllene fisk - och en koncentrerad ljusstråle i en unik färgnyans träffar Dicks ögon. Under loppet av några sekunder upplever han att en oändlig mängd information förs över till hans hjärna. Information om alltifrån hur universum och tillvaron i stort fungerar till enskilda detaljer som att hans åtta månaders son har en allvarlig sjukdom och måste opereras. Fram till sin död 1982 ägnar Dick sedan merparten av sin tid åt att söka klarhet i vad som hänt med honom. Det system, eller det väsen, han har fått kontakt med kallas VALIS. Här är boken om VALIS. "När han öppnade dörren fick han se en vacker mörkhårig ung kvinna som höll fram en liten vit påse med Dexofen. Men trots sin enorma smärta brydde sig Fat inte alls om tabletterna, för han var helt fokuserad på det glittrande guldhalsband som hängde om halsen på flickan, han kunde inte ta ögonen från det. Fast han var omtöcknad av smärta - och av tiopentalen - och utmattad efter den påfrestning han genomlidit, lyckades han ändå fråga flickan vad guldsymbolen som hängde i halskedjan symboliserade. Det var en fisk, i siluett. Flickan rörde vid fisken med sitt smala finger, och sa: 'Det är en symbol som användes av de tidiga kristna.' Omedelbart drabbades Fat av en flashback. Han mindes - för en halvsekund bara. Mindes antikens Rom, och sig som en av de tidiga kristna. Hela den antika världen och hans undangömda förskrämda liv som hemlig kristen jagad av de romerska myndigheterna vällde in i hans hjärna...och sen var han tillbaka i Kalifornien 1974, och tog emot den lilla påsen med värktabletter av flickan.

SULL'ARIDO SUOLO DI MARTE, colonia dove si sono infranti i sogni di grandiosa espansione della specie umana, non c'è nulla di più prezioso dell'acqua, scarsa e indispensabile, amministrata dal potente Sindacato Idraulici. O forse qualcosa c'è: Manfred Steiner, un ragazzino autistico capace di scivolare con la mente tra le pieghe del tempo. Una facoltà che sembra avere in comune con i Bleekmen, gli indigeni marziani la cui civiltà è stata spazzata via dalla colonizzazione terrestre. Arnie Kott, affarista senza scrupoli e capo del Sindacato Idraulici, intuisce che il bambino potrebbe essere la chiave per realizzare i suoi sogni di ricchezza e potere e mette in moto una trama dagli esiti bizzarri e imprevedibili. Scritto in un anno di forti tensioni globali, il 1962, e ricco di echi autobiografici, Noi marziani (1964) è uno dei romanzi più complessi e nello stesso tempo coesi di una discesa agli inferi travestiti da paradiso, un'esplorazione del cuore di tenebra e dei meandri della mente dell'essere umano, e assieme una potente allegoria della società californiana degli anni Sessanta e del patetico mito della Frontiera.

The definitive collection of the illustrated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It has inspired and expanded minds since its debut in 1968. It served as the source material for the classic sci-fi film Blade Runner . Now, collected for the first time in one comprehensive edition, Philip K. Dick’s masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is fully realized in graphic novel form. This definitive volume compiles all 24 issues of the Eisner Award-nominated series illustrated by artist Tony Parker and color artist Blond with lettering by Richard Starkings, and features essays from Jonathan Lethem, Warren Ellis, Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker, Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Isa Dick Hackett, and many more.

The stories of Philip K. Dick have been made into some of the most memorable science fiction movies ever. Next year his classic short story "The Minority Report" will become a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise. The story takes place in a future world where scientists are able to predict criminal behavior before it happens... and so "pre-criminals" are arrested before they can actually break any laws. This volume features the title story and eight other short stories. Includes an introduction by Malcolm Edwards.

This a previously-published edition of ISBN13: 9780141186672 . It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

Au XXIIIe siècle, n'importe qui peut accéder au pouvoir. Le dirigeant du monde, ou meneur de jeu, est désigné par tirage au sort. Et comme dans toute société ludique, ce sont les règles qui régissent la vie, le hasard venant régulièrement en remettre en cause le déroulement. C'est ce que découvre Ted Benteley, un scientifique tout juste licencié, qui décide de prêter allégeance à Reese Verrick, le meneur de jeu. C'est ce que découvre aussi Leon Cartwright, un électronicien que la grande loterie, ou " bouteille ", vient de désigner comme nouveau meneur, alors qu'il comptait quitter la Terre. Deux destins contrariés, deux destins liés. Car Verrick veut reprendre sa place. Benteley tombe bien...

Washington, 2054. John Anderton est membre de Précrime, une unité gouvernementale utilisant les dons de prescience de trois mutants, les précogs, pour arrêter les criminels avant leur passage à l'acte. Avant même qu'ils aient imaginé de passer à l'acte. Anderton a une confiance aveugle dans les prédictions des précogs. Mais quand, chasseur devenu gibier, il se retrouvera lui-même accusé du meurtre d'un homme qu'il n'a jamais rencontré, il lui faudra découvrir les véritables rouages de Précrime pour prouver son innocence.

2021年，數百萬人命喪世界大戰，人類瀕臨滅絕，倖存者遠離地球，留下來的無不渴望擁有一隻生物，而負擔不起的人，廠商提供幾可亂真的仿冒品，有馬，有鳥，有貓，還有羊……他們甚至做出仿生人。 這些仿生人製作之精巧，簡直難辨真偽，但只有移居火星的人才能擁有。政府深怕人造人帶來浩劫，禁止它們來到地球。瑞克・狄卡德是官方核准的賞金殺手。他的工作是找到逍遙法外的仿生人，將它們「除役」。 然而，狄卡德這次奉命追殺的6名新型仿生人，卻讓他對人性、道德、同理等概念產生了巨大的困惑。他只能靠分辨同理心的「共感測驗」來判別仿生人與真人，心中卻升起不安的顫慄──因為就連他自己，都可能無法通過這項測驗。 仿生人會夢想擁有電動羊嗎？ ……瑞克之前從沒想過這一點。他對被自己除掉的仿生人從來沒有一絲同情。不論是在內心深處還是在理智上，他總以為自己全心全意地將仿生人視為一種智慧型機器。

In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an array of prostheses, established a far-reaching reputation as an inspired painter. When the new church commissions a grand mural depicting the Deus Irae, it falls upon Tibor to make a treacherous journey to find the man, to find the god, and capture his terrible visage for posterity.

Reddish-yellow sunlight filtered through the thick quartz windows into the sleep-compartment. Tony Rossi yawned, stirred a little, then opened his black eyes and sat up quickly. With one motion he tossed the covers back and slid to the warm metal floor. He clicked off his alarm clock and hurried to the closet. It looked like a nice day. The landscape outside was motionless, undisturbed by winds or dust-shift. The boy's heart pounded excitedly. He pulled his trousers on, zipped up the reinforced mesh, struggled into his heavy canvas shirt, and then sat down on the edge of the cot to tug on his boots. He closed the seams around their tops and then did the same with his gloves. Next he adjusted the pressure on his pump unit and strapped it between his shoulder blades. He grabbed his helmet from the dresser, and he was ready for the day. In the dining-compartment his mother and father had finished breakfast. Their voices drifted to him as he clattered down the ramp. A disturbed murmur; he paused to listen. What were they talking about? Had he done something wrong, again?

A human brain-controlled spacecraft would mean mechanical perfection. This was accomplished, and something unforeseen: a strange entity called . . . Mr. Spaceship

The claws were bad enough in the first place--nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace--if it could " Philip K. Dick said of his story "Second Variety" "My grand theme--who is human and who only appears as human?--emerges most fully. Unless we can individually and collectively be certain of the answer to this question, we face what is, in my view, the most serious problem possible. Without answering it adequately, we cannot even be certain of our own selves.

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗？》 By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans. Emigrées to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. 核战后，放射尘让地球上的动物濒临灭绝，地球已不再适合人类居住。为了鼓励残存的人口移民，政府承诺，只要移民到外 星球，就可以为每个人自动配备一个仿生人帮助其生活。仿生人不满足于被人类奴役的现状，想方设法逃回地球。主人公里克•德卡德是一名专门追捕逃亡仿生人的赏金猎人。在一次 追捕行动中，里克遭遇了新型仿生人前所未有的挑战。九死之后，能否一生？在与仿生人的接触和较量中，里克发现自己对仿生人的看法和态度有了很大的改变。这种改变究竟是福还是祸？这是一部不可思议的复杂作品，会激荡起头脑中各种各样的想法。《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗》指出，机器人也有直觉。它们不只是可以飞快运算的机器，它们也会思考、睡觉和做梦。由此引发了一个更大的问题：什么才是人的特质？

★★美国科幻鬼才，雨果奖、坎贝尔奖获奖作家菲利普•迪克代表作★★ ★★扭曲的现实、个体身份缺失、毒品效应……熔迪克科幻所有经典元素于一炉★★ ★★坎贝尔奖最佳长篇小说，并获星云奖和雨果奖提名★★ 10月11日，杰森•塔夫纳还是一个拥有三千万粉丝的大明星；10月12日，他却躺在一家破旅馆的房间里，还被抹去了所有个人资料。在一个缺乏身份证明就是犯罪的国度里，他不得不在混沌中摸索，全力追踪事实真相。 小说描述了一个处于国民警卫队和警察专制统治下的社会，内中交织着名人效应、基因改造、时空扭曲和泛滥毒品，探索了爱和人性的本质。于1975年获得坎贝尔奖，并获雨果奖和星云奖提名。

"The most outrA(c) science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon," exclaimed "Wired Magazine" when "Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s" was published in May 2007. Now The Library of America has gathered all three volumes of Jonathan Lethem's definitive Philip K. Dick edition in a boxed set sure to be a must for collectors and sci-fi fans. INCLUDES: Four Novels of the 1960s "The Man in the High Castle" (1962) "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (1965) "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968) "Ubik" (1969) Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s "Martian Time-Slip" (1964) "Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb" (1965) "Now Wait for Last Year" (1966) "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" (1974) "A Scanner Darkly" (1977) VALIS and Later Novels "A Maze of Death" (1970) "VALIS" (1981) "The Divine Invasion" (1981) "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer" (1982)

The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery and when the magnetic lottery bottle twitched, anyone could become the absolute ruler of the world, the Quizmaster. But with the power came the game – the assassination game – which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to evade his chosen killer? Which made for fascinating and exciting viewing, compelling enough to distract the public’s attention while the Big Five industrial complexes ran the world. Then, in 2203, with the choice of a member of a maverick cult as Quizmaster, the system developed a little hitch… was Philip K. Dick’s first published novel, brilliant and idiosyncratic, powerful and affecting.

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal -- the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit -- and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted ...

The theology in this novel is not an analog of any known religion. It stems from an attempt made by William Sarill and myself to develop an abstract, logical system of religious thought, based on the arbitrary postulate that God exists.