Who was Dick? A freaked-out junkie who took too many drugs? An explorer of madness who go too close to his subject and ended up claiming to have met God? A practical joker? The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world? At a time when most SF was about cowboys in outer space, Dick explored [...]
Stranger than science fiction
It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right. Part science fiction, part theological detective story ' i[...]
Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people ' and he's the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he's a nob[...]
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[...]
Mars is a desolate world. Largely forgotten by Earth, the planet remains helpless in the stranglehold of Arnie Kott, who as boss of the plumber's union has a monopoly over the vital water supply. Arnie Kott is obsessed by the past; the native Bleekmen, poverty-stricken wanderers, can see into the f[...]
Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is [...]
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their[...]
A matchless display of Philip K. Dick's quirky, humorous, idiosyncratically philosophical world view. With one exception, all the stories of this volume were written over a nine-month period between 1951 and 1952, when Dick was making his first impact as a writer.[...]
The stories within SECOND VARIETY were written between 1952 and 1955, while America was in the grip of McCarthyism. The concerns of the time are reflected in stories such as Second Variety, which tells of an endless war fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robots, or Imposter where a man ac[...]
THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as 'Foster, You're Dead' a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and 'The Go[...]
The fifth and final part of the complete collected stories shows Philip K. Dick at the very height of his outstanding powers. The twenty-five tales were written between 1963 and 1981, just a few months before he died, and include two stories which have been turned into box office smashes: the title [...]
In this sixth entry in the series of Dick's letters, the great sci-fi author continues his metaphysical and religious quest initiated by the Valis visions of 1974. In these letters to friends, fans, agents, and other sci-fi writers, Dick speculates on the visionary and archetypal material that intru[...]
Wer oder was ist "Ubik"? Nach einhelliger Meinung Philip K. Dicks bester Roman und sein neben der Valis-Trilogie größtes visionäres Werk. "Dieses Buch stellt Philip K. Dick endgültig auf eine Stufe mit den großen amerikanischen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Und ich spreche von den wirklich Gro[...]
Noen venner søker etter meningen med livet og utforsker den visjonære åpenbaringen til en mann kalt Horselover Fat. Det viser seg at Horselover har fått sine visjoner fra en guddommelig kraft kalt "Vast Active Living Intelligence System", forkortet VALIS.[...]
Philip K Dicks Bladerunner räknas som ett av science fiction-litteraturens största mästerverk. Rick Deckards jobb är att spåra och avrätta (eller med en förskönande omskrivning: "dra in") förrymda mänskliga robotar, androider. Androiderna är ytterligt intrikata imitationer av människor, [...]
Philip K Dicks hyllade mästerverk romanen Ubik i översättning och med efterord av Johan Frick. Philip K Dick må vara mest känd för de berättelser som nått vita duken, som till exempel Blade Runner och Total Recall men hans produktion var mycket större än så och för de verkliga finsmakarn[...]
Nu ska sporten inta sin naturliga plats i den finlandssvenska litteraturen. Det finns bohemer med bollsinne, det finns litteraturkritiker som springer maraton och många författare som dribblar som gudar.Bakom idrottsvärldens krav på prestationer och medaljer ligger ett mentalt omklädningsrum. D[...]
Tohtori Veriraha on ydinsodan jälkeiseen aikaan sijoittuva mestariteos, jota isännöivät Dickin ikimuistoisimmat hahmot. On Hoppy Harrington, epämuodostunut mutantti telekineettisine voimineen, Walt Dangerfield, epäitsekäs dj maata kiertävältä radalta, tohtori Bluthgeld, suuruudenhullu ja v[...]