Books by Philip K Dick

Portrait of Philip K Dick

Philip K. Dick stands among the most visionary voices in twentieth‑century science fiction, renowned for his unsettling explorations of identity, reality, and the fragile boundaries between the two. His novels and stories-often set in near‑future or alternate worlds-probe what it means to be human when technology, paranoia, and shifting perceptions blur every certainty.

From the existential unease of *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?* to the mind‑bending realities of *Ubik* and *The Man in the High Castle*, Dick's writing continues to inspire readers and filmmakers alike. His work endures for its restless imagination, philosophical depth, and the uneasy recognition that the future he imagined feels ever closer to our own.

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  • We Can Remember it for you Wholesale and Other

    Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. We Can Remember it for you Wholesale and Other

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    Book SynopsisIncludes the stories that inspired the major motion pictures Total Recall and The Adjustment Bureau.

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    £14.39

  • Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The

    Orion Publishing Co Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The

    Book SynopsisWorld 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 ...Trade ReviewOne of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac * Sunday Times *My literary hero * Fay Weldon *For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first * Terry Gilliam *A masterclass in sci-fi wonderment * Empire *

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  • HarperCollins Publishers Now Wait for Last Year

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    Book SynopsisContacted by starmen of similar racial stock who have a greatly advanced, galactic society, a united Earth becomes their ally in a lengthy war with the Reegs, blue, six-limbed aliens with no vocal chords. This is the story of how Earth chose the wrong ally.

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  • Orion Publishing Co Martian TimeSlip

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  • HarperCollins Publishers Clans of the Alphane Moon

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    Book SynopsisNo man in their rightful mind would kill their wife miles from home.Chuck Rittersdorf has recruited some robot help, and now, in the madness and dysfunction of the Alphane moon, there seems no better place to carry out his cruel plans unless he too is part of a much larger conspiracy.Alpha Centauri, a star within the closest star system to earth, has several orbiting moons, among which is Alpha III M2. On this remote moon, a colony, originally set up to provide respite for the mentally ill is about to become the focus of a secret invasion plan.Among them is Chuck Rittersdorf, a 21st century CIA robot programmer, who has decided to kill his own wife via a remote control simulacrum. He enlists the aid of a telepathic Ganymedean slime mould called Lord Running Clam, an attractive female police officer and various others both witting and unwitting.But when Chuck finds himself in the midst of an interplanetary spy ring on the Alphane moon inhabited entirely by certified maniacs, his personaTrade Review'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction’ Sunday Times 'An elusive and incomparable artist'Ursula K. LeGuin 'Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise' Michael Moorcock

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  • The Zap Gun Gollancz

    Orion Publishing Co The Zap Gun Gollancz

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    Book SynopsisScaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, THE ZAP GUN is Dick''s remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions - Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo, even as he knows she''s trying to kill him.

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    £11.22

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    Random House USA Inc Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

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    Book SynopsisA new trade paper edition of the science fiction classic, first published in 1968, captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which incredibly realistic androids, banned from Earth, fight back against their potential destroyers. Reprint.

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    £14.40

  • The Cosmic Puppets

    Orion Publishing Co The Cosmic Puppets

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    Book SynopsisA typically unsettling tale of different realities from a master of the genre.Trade Review"The fascination of the novel lies in spotting the themes that Dick would later develop and make his own: the malleability of perceived reality, the imposition of the fake on the real and the struggle between good and evil. The Cosmic Puppets may be a minor work, but is nevertheless interesting." * THE GUARDIAN *

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  • Puttering About in a Small Land

    Orion Publishing Co Puttering About in a Small Land

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    Book SynopsisWritten in the late 1950s but unpublished until after his death, this is one of Dick''s greatest realistic novelsWhen Roger and Virginia Lindhal enroll their son Gregg in Mrs Alt''s Los Padres Valley School in the mountains of Southern California, their marriage is already in deep trouble. Then the Lindhals meet Chic and Liz Bonner, whose two sons also board at Mrs Alt''s school.The meeting is a catalyst for a complicated series of emotions and traumas, set against the backdrop of suburban Los Angeles in the early 1950s. As Roger, Virginia, Chic and Liz orbit each other in ever-decaying circles, their lives threaten to run out of control.This is a realistic novel filled with details of everyday life and skilfully told from three points of view. It is powerful, eloquent, and gripping.Winner of both the HUGO and JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDs for BEST NOVEL, Philip K. Dick is widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day. The object Trade Review"The fascination of the novel lies in spotting the themes that Dick would later develop and make his own: the malleability of perceived reality, the imposition of the fake on the real and the struggle between good and evil. The Cosmic Puppets may be a minor work, but is nevertheless interesting." * THE GUARDIAN *

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    £9.99

  • The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike

    Orion Publishing Co The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike

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    Book SynopsisSmall town America tears itself apart in this realist novel from one of the greats of science fictionLeo Runcible - of Runcible Realty - is too excitable and too pushy. His wife drinks too much. He may be a man of principle, but Liberal Jewish Leo is an outsider in the lilywhite Carquinez, Marin County.When he gets into a pointless argument with a customer over his neighbour Walt Dombrosio''s house guests, the resulting ramifications follow a bizarre logic of cause and effect to lead in entirely unexpected directions ...And can Leo really have found the skull of a Neanderthal man in middle America?THE MAN WHOSE TEETH WERE ALL EXACTLY ALIKE is a dazzling novel by a writer famous for his power to surprise and delight.Trade ReviewPhilip K. Dick rivals Kurt Vonnegut - NEW YORK TIMES

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    £10.79

  • Radio Free Albemuth

    Mariner Books Classics Radio Free Albemuth

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    Book SynopsisA visionary alternate history of the United States filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick’s stature as our century’s greatest science fiction writer.

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    £14.39

  • Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

    Mariner Books Classics Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

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    Book SynopsisSelected Stories of Philip K. Dick contains twenty-one of Dick’s most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers. In “The Days of Perky Pat,” people spend their time playing with dolls who manage to live an idyllic life no longer available to the Earth’s real inhabitants. “Adjustment Team” looks at the fate of a man who by mistake has stepped out of his own time. In “Autofac,” one community must battle benign machines to take back control of their lives. And in “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,” we follow the story of one man whose very reality may be nothing more than a nightmare. The collection also includes such classic stories as “The Minority Report,” the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie, and “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” the basis for the film Total Recall. With an introduction by

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    £24.00

  • A Scanner Darkly

    Cengage Learning, Inc A Scanner Darkly

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    £15.29

  • Flow My Tears the Policeman Said

    Mariner Books Classics Flow My Tears the Policeman Said

    2 in stock

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    £16.14

  • VALIS

    Mariner Books Classics VALIS

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    £16.79

  • The Man in the High Castle

    Mariner Books Classics The Man in the High Castle

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    Book SynopsisIn this Hugo Awardwinning alternative history classic—the basis for the Amazon Original series—the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West. It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In this world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San Francisco, unsure of his standing within the bureaucracy and Japan''s with Germany; and Juliana Frink, Frank''s ex-wife, who may be more important than she realizes. These seemingly disparate characters gradually realize their connections to each other just as they realize that something is not quite right about their world. And it seems as though the answers might lie with Hawthorne Abendsen, a mysterious and reclusive author, who

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    £15.19

  • The Philip K. Dick Reader

    Kensington Publishing The Philip K. Dick Reader

    1 in stock

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    £16.15

  • Creative Media Partners, LLC Second Variety

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    £13.22

  • Creative Media Partners, LLC The Variable Man

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    £14.09

  • Creative Media Partners, LLC Mr. Spaceship

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    £13.22

  • Creative Media Partners, LLC Piper in the Woods

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC The Crystal Crypt

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    £13.22

  • Creative Media Partners, LLC The Defenders

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    £13.22

  • Creative Media Partners, LLC The Skull

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    £13.22

  • Read Books Adjustment Team

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    £14.11

  • Read Books Mr Spaceship

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    £13.26

  • Read Books The Golden Man

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    £14.11

  • Read Books The Last of the Masters

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    £13.26

  • Read Books Second Variety

    15 in stock

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    £12.39

  • Read Books The Hanging Stranger

    15 in stock

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    £12.39

  • Positronic Publishing Space Science Fiction Super Pack

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    £23.51

  • Wilder Publications The Fantasy Super Pack #2

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    £21.99

  • The Philip K. Dick Collection: A Library of

    The Library of America The Philip K. Dick Collection: A Library of

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    £93.50

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  • Alpha Edition The Variable Man

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    £15.69

  • Paycheck and Other Classic Stories By Philip K.

    Kensington Publishing Paycheck and Other Classic Stories By Philip K.

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £14.02

  • Blade Runner

    Random House USA Inc Blade Runner

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,which inspired two major motion pictures:Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can?t afford one, companies build incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They?ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and ?retire? them. But when cornered, androids fight back?with lethal force. Praise for Philip K. Dick ?[Philip K. Dick] sees all the sparkling?and terrifying?possibilities . . . that other authors shy away from.??Rolling Stone ?A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.??The New York Times

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    £9.49

  • Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: And Other

    Melville House Publishing Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: And Other

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  • FISCHER TOR Blade Runner

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    3 in stock

    £15.20

  • FISCHER Taschenbuch Das Orakel vom Berge

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    £11.40

  • FISCHER Taschenbuch Warte auf das letzte Jahr

    1 in stock

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    £9.99

  • FISCHER Taschenbuch Electric Dreams

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    £11.40

  • FISCHER Taschenbuch Hauptgewinn die Erde

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    3 in stock

    £11.40

  • Lindhardt og Ringhof Ubik

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £29.24

  • Ediciones Minotauro El mundo que Jones creó

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisPrecognición, un mundo gobernado por el relativismo y medusas alienígenas gigantes. El mundo que Jones creó es un clásico de Philip K. Dick que toma reflexiones filosóficas profundas y les infunde una acción trepidante. Floyd Jones siempre ha podido ver exactamente lo que sucederá en su futuro a un año vista; un regalo y una maldición que comenzó un año antes de que naciera.

    1 in stock

    £22.61

  • Los clanes de la luna Alfana

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisEn la Tierra, los casos de transtornos mentales aumentan exponencialmente. Desbordados, los centros psiquiátricos sólo encuentran una solución: exiliar a los enfermos a una luna habitable que orbita el remoto planeta Alfa III.Sin embargo, durante dos décadas se interrumpe el contacto entre los terrícolas y los desequilibrados, quienes acaban organizándose en una sociedad donde cada clan se corresponde con una patología y un rol. Así, los psicóticos son la clase gobernante; los esquizofrénicos, los artistas y líderes religiosos; los maníaco-depresivos, los filósofos... ".

    1 in stock

    £17.79

  • Una mirada a la oscuridad

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisPolicías y criminales han sido siempre las dos caras de una misma moneda, pero ningún novelista ha sabido explorar esta perversa simbiosis como Philip K. Dick. Fred es el agente de policía encargado de investigar y detener a Bob Arctor, peligroso traficante de la adictiva y letal Sustancia D.Para ello Fred se adentra en un mundo donde resulta difícil diferenciar la realidad de los sueños y se sumerge en un juego perverso con Bob, en el que será a la vez cazador y presa, hasta que la pesadilla culmina con un sorprendente enfrentamiento final entre el policía y el traficante.Cáusticamente divertida e inquietantemente certera en la descripción de yonquis, colgados, traficantes, buscavidas y policías, quizás sea la novela sobre drogas más desconcertante jamás escrita. El director Richard Linklater la llevó a la gran pantalla en 2006.Sobre la portada: Los protagonistas son las drogas y la paranoia, así que se escogió como motivo central la flor azul de donde se extrae la Sustancia,

    1 in stock

    £18.69

  • La burbuja rota

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisEl pinchadiscos Jim Briskin, su anterior mujer Pat y el matrimonio adolescente formado por Art y Rachael son cuatro almas perdidas, capaces de actuar de un modo irracional y, en ocasiones, de forma violenta. Jim todavía quiere a su antigua esposa, le encanta la música clásica y el rock and roll. Pat no quiere a nadie. Art y Rachael adoran a Jim porque lo escuchan en la radio. Jim, por su parte, se considera en cierto modo una figura paterna para Art y Rachael, quien está embarazada.Después de que Art quede seducido por Pat, sobre Jim y Rachael recae la tarea de salvarse tanto ellos como a sus antiguas parejas. Pero la vida es algo caótico y brutal, e incluso los actos realizados con la mejor de las intenciones pueden provocar el efecto contrario?

    1 in stock

    £18.95

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