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In 1950s San Francisco, as Jim Ferguson, an elderly garage owner with a heart condition, prepares to retire and sell his business, he is offered the deal of a lifetime by record-company owner Chris Harman, but Al Miller, a somewhat irresponsible mechanic who works in Jim's Garage, believes that Harman is a crook and sets out to protect his mentor. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

First published in 1985 by a small press, this realist (read: not sci-fi) early novel from dystopian master Dick (19281982) bears the following introductory author's note: This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too, in that the funny things that happen happen to real people who come alive. The ending is a happy one. What more can an author say? What more can he give? To which one answers indeed, and quickly turns to the adventures of protagonist Bruce Stevens as he drives into the Pacific Northwestthe sales territory of a Willy Lomanesque man named Milton Lumkylooking for wholesale typewriters. (May)

Yielding to a compulsion he can't explain, Ted Barton interrupts his vacation in order to visit the town of his birth, Millgate, Virginia. But upon entering the sleepy, isolated little hamlet, Ted is distraught to find that the place bears no resemblance to the one he left behind—and never did. He also discovers that in this Millgate Ted Barton died of scarlet fever when he was nine years old. Perhaps even more troubling is the fact that it is literally impossible to escape. Unable to leave, Ted struggles to find the reason for such disturbing incongruities, but before long, he finds himself in the midst of a struggle between good and evil that stretches far beyond the confines of the valley. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.

Las enfermedades mentales han incrementado tanto en el planeta tierra, que se deciden a extraditarlos al planeta Alfa III. Durante dos décadas están completamente olvidados por los terrícolas periodo en el cual acaban organizandose en diferentes estratos sociales por su patologia, formando diferentes clanes; sin embargo en la Tierra deciden enviar al agente de la CIA, Chuch RItterford, junto con su esposa Mary, quien pretende asesinarle, y una estrella de la television, Bunny Hentmann. Todo ello nos reune a una serie de estrafalarios personajes, en la que los limites de los real y lo irreal revelan la fina linea divisoria que se encuentra entre ambas. Amor, locura, diversion....¿hasta donde llega la exploracion de la psique humana?.

In "Solar Lottery, " the ruler of the Universe is chosen according to the random laws of a strange game. Quizmaster Verrick is currently in charge, but when Ted, a research technician, signs on to work for Verrick, he has no idea that he himself is about to play an integral part in the plot to assassinate Cartwright, the contender.

No 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 personal revenge plans begin to awry as the nature of reality itself is called into question in this brilliantly inventive tale of interstellar madness, murder and violence.

A man is trapped in a pocket universe where he is forced to use his psionic powers in a futile war.

En la árida colonia de Marte, lo único más valioso que el agua puede ser un niño esquizofrénico de diez años llamado Manfred Steiner. Aunque para la ONU sea un niño anómalo destinado a la deportación y a su destruccion final, otros -especialmente para

Dans la grande tradition des littératures de l'imaginaire, « Folio SF », laboratoire des possibles, propose des textes de science-fiction, de fantasy et de fantastique. Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Serge Brussolo, Orson Scott Card, David Gemmell, Robert Heinlein, M. John Harrisson, Robert Holdstock, Lovecraft, Christopher Priest, Norman Spinrad, Bruce Sterling, Jack Vance, Stefan Wul, Roger Zelazny y sont parmi les auteurs les plus représentés. La mythique collection « Présence du futur » (600 titres depuis 1954), cèdant son fonds et laissant place en 2000 à « Folio SF », a largement contribué à la constitution de son catalogue (récemment le Guide du voyageur galactique, H2G2, de Douglas Adams) ; la collection d'inédits « Lunes d'encre », chez Denoël, également (récemment avec Michael Moorcock, par exemple, publié dans les deux collections). Mais « Folio SF » a également publié plus de quinze inédits (Le Travail du furet de Jean-Pierre Andrevon, La Voie du sabre de Thomas Day, La Fontaine pétrifiante de Christopher Priest ; traduction inédite de Psychohistoire en péril de Donald Kingsbury, l'un des auteurs de hard science les plus ambitieux du genre ; premières traductions françaises de Franck M. Robinson, avec Le Pouvoir, ou de L'Appel de Mordant de Stephen R. Donaldson), des éditions révisées et augmentées (Jardin virtuel de Sylvie Denis.) et des textes d'éditeurs tiers, comme l'Atalante, les Editions du Bélial' (Thierry Di Rollo, Pour Anderson), Mnemos, Rivages, A.M. Metailié... A noter également, la publication d'un essai inédit sur les Transfictions, dû à Francis Berthelot : Bibliothèque de l'Entre-Mondes. La SF dans « Folio » ? Façon d'affirmer que le « genre » n'est ni marginal ni mineur.

En un futuro no muy lejano, lo único que hace soportable la vida a los seres humanos son las drogas. Obligados a huir del planeta Tierra, los colonos de Marte viven bajo el dominio de Bulero, propietario de la compañia que administra el alucinogeno ilegal (Can-D) que les permiten evadirse. El monopolio de Bulero se ve amenazado cuando Palmer Eldritch regresa con una droga nueva y legal (Chew-Z).

In a highly regimented future where government controls are largely taken for granted, the recently appointed morality czar Allen Purcell has his hands full chasing down a mysterious individual who thrives on perpetrating practical jokes designed to disrupt various government agencies.

Las historias de Philip K. Dick han dado lugar a algunas de las películas más memorables en el género de la ciencia ficción como Blade Runner, Desafío total o Inteligencia artificial. En el mundo de Minority Report, el comisionado John Anderton es el creador del sistema precrimen, que utiliza 'precogs' -gente con la capacidad de prever el futuro- para identificar a los criminales antes de que puedan cometer un delito. Desgraciadamente para Anderton, sus precogs le señalan como futuro criminal. Anderton sabe que nunca ha contemplado dicha posibilidad y esta certeza demuestra que sus precog son falibles.