Come fa Glen Runciter, titolare di un'agenzia di anti-telepatia, a comunicare con sua moglie Ella per avere consigli dall'aldilà, da un mondo informe e allucinante di semi-vita o non-morte? E perché mai dopo ogni collegamento con Runciter la semi-vita di Ella si va affievolendo sempre più? Che cosa afferra Joe Chip dal suo mondo del 1992 e lo scaglia nell'America degli anni Trenta? E come è possibile che Joe riceva dei misteriosi e cupi messaggi sui muri e sugli specchi dei bagni dal suo capo quando questi è stato ucciso da una bomba esplosa sulla Luna? Come mai anche Pat, con tutti i suoi terribili poteri, è intrappolata insieme a Joe Chip in un assurdo incubo? Una nuova edizione del romanzo di Dick che riporta la sceneggiatura inedita dello stesso autore.

Los Angeles 1994: una droga misteriosa, la sostanza M, invade il mercato seminando follia e morte. La sua origine è ignota come la sua composizione e l'organizzazione che la diffonde. Bob Arctor, agente della sezione narcotici, si infiltra tra i tossici che ne fanno uso, per scoprire chi dirige le fila del traffico illegale: un abito speciale nasconde ai colleghi la sua identità e una sofisticata apparecchiatura elettronica gli consente di spiare se stesso nella sua nuova condizione di drogato. Giungerà alla verità solo dopo essere sprofondato nel buio e nella disperazione della dipendenza.

In questo romanzo, apparso nel 1963, la Bomba è caduta, la catastrofe è avvenuta, e ha cancellato città ed esseri viventi. I sopravvissuti non sono più eguali a prima, ma rappresentano l'embrione di una stirpe, che ha innestato sulle malinconie di una civiltà al crepuscolo il vitalismo confuso di una razza agli albori, che deve inventare il proprio futuro. L'intero pianeta è qui rappresentato da una piccola comunità californiana, dove i superstiti vivono aggrappati alle onde radio che provengono dallo spazio. Il loro profeta è Walt Dangerfield, l'astronauta che è rimasto bloccato in orbita prima della catastrofe atomica, e di lassù trasmette a terra musica e nastri pedagogici.

Le forze dell'Asse hanno vinto la seconda guerra mondiale e l'America è divisa in due parti, l'una asservita al Reich, l'altra ai Giapponesi. Ma c'è uno strano libro, vietato, secondo il quale l'Asse sarebbe stato sconfitto dagli Alleati... chi è il suo autore e quali storie vivono realmente i protagonisti?

"The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world."
--John Brunner
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.
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.
Emigrees 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.
Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.
"[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities. . . that other authors shy away from."
--Paul Williams
Rolling Stone

Collects articles on science fiction and related topics, chapters from an unfinished novel, excerpts from journals, and other writings

Il romanzo è incentrato sulle figure di Fay Hume, una donna aggressiva e materialista che vuole la scalata sociale di suo marito Charles, un uomo rozzo e incolto che si è fatto da solo fino a possedere una casa da 40.000 dollari l'anno e una proprietà di dieci acri ma è totalmente incapace di rapportarsi con sua moglie, dell'amante di Fay, un giovane intellettuale, e soprattutto del fratello di Fay, Jack. Jack Isidore, l'artista del titolo, è il personaggio più affascinante del libro: Jack raccoglie vecchie riviste di SF, crede in Atlantide, negli UFO, nelle percezioni extrasensoriali, e nella vicina fine del mondo.

Thomas Cole, l'uomo variabile proveniente dal passato, è come un'incognita indipendente che sconvolge ogni calcolo degli strateghi terrestri del futuro, impegnati in una lotta all'ultimo respiro con gli abitanti di Alpha Centauri. Tolto alla sua epoca per favorire un disegno preciso, Cole sfugge ai suoi manovratori e tende i fili del destino in una direzione del tutto nuova ed imprevista. In uno scenario di Space Opera per lui insolito, l'autore porta in questo romanzo alle estreme conseguenze la sua tematica fondamentale: quella del "diverso" che, con il suo comportamento, sconvolge i parametri consueti del mondo reale.

On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union--suspect that Manfred's disorder  may be a window into the future. In Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.

Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.

What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.

>On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.

Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.

Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time -- and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent's newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy -- and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the Male better or to keep him poised just this side of death.

Now Wait for Last fear bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional -- and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time it is.

When the Lindahls meet the Bonners, their marriage is already in deep trouble. This meeting is a catalyst for a complicated series of emotions and traumas, set against the backdrop of suburban Los Angeles in the early '50s.

A collection of stories by the celebrated science fiction writer includes never-before-published selections as well as the author's standards--``The Little Black Box'' and ``The Pre-Person'' among them. By the author of The Man in the High Castle. Original.

€ 14,60

Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.

In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary.

n The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence" (West Coast Revew of Books).

Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. Valis is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.

"The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation--this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years."--Ursula K. Le Guin, New Republic

Captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which sophisticated androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers, while bounty hunter Rick Deckard sets out to track down the replicants. Reissue. (Tie-in to the Fall 2007 release of the deluxe twenty-fifth anniversary DVD of the Warner Bros. film, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and others) (Science Fiction)