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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 ...

CONTENTS:PHILIP K. DICK1. Adjustment TeamPHILIP K. DICK2. The Crystal CryptPHILIP K. DICK3. The Golden ManPHILIP K. DICK4. The Hanging StrangerWILKIE COLLINS5. The Anglers Story Of The Lady Of Glenwith GrangeRAFAEL SABATINI6. The Fools Love StoryRAFAEL SABATINI7. The PrizeO.HENRY8. The Phonograph and the GraftMAX PEMBERTON9. A Miracle of BellsMAX PEMBERTON10. The Risen DeadMAX PEMBERTON11. The Wolf of CismonMAX PEMBERTON12. Treasure of White Creek13. B. 24EDGAR ALLAN POE14. The Fall of the House of UsherEDGAR WALLACE15. The Man Who Lived at ClaphamEDGAR WALLACE16. The Man Who Hated Amelia JonesEDGAR WALLACE17. The Man Who Hated EarthwormsEDGAR WALLACE18. The Man Who Loved MusicEDGAR WALLACE19. The Man Who Was AcquittedEDGAR WALLACE20. The Man Who Was PluckedEDGAR WALLACE21. The Man Who Died TwiceEDGAR WALLACE22. The Man Who Would Not SpeakHENRY C. ROWLAND23. At the Break of the MonsoonHENRY C. ROWLAND24. At the Last of the EbbHENRY C. ROWLAND25. Back TracksHENRY C. ROWLAND26. In the China SeaHENRY C. ROWLAND27. In the WhaleboatHENRY C. ROWLAND28. Jordan Knapp, TraderHENRY C. ROWLAND29. Off LuzonHENRY C. ROWLAND30. Rosenthal the JewHENRY C. ROWLAND31. The MerleHENRY C. ROWLAND32. The Shears of AtroposHENRY C. ROWLAND33. The Treasure BoxHENRY C. ROWLAND34. Two GentlemenH.G. WELLS35. The Treasure in the ForestH.G. WELLS36. Through a WindowE.NESBIT37. John Charringtons WeddingALEXANDER PUSHKIN38. The Queen of SpadesSAX ROHMER39. The Zayat KissSAX ROHMER40. Breath of AllahSAX ROHMER41. Harun PashaSAX ROHMER42. In the Valley of the SorceressSAX ROHMER43. Lord of the JackalsSAX ROHMER44. Lure of SoulsSAX ROHMER45. Omar of IspahanSAX ROHMER46. Pomegranate FlowerSAX ROHMER47. The Call of SivaSAX ROHMER48. The Death-Ring of SneferuSAX ROHMER49. The Green MistSAX ROHMER50. The Lady of the Lattice

La produzione e la vita, la riflessione e l'esperienza, sono tutt'uno in Philip Dick: episodi di vita vissuta costituivano spesso lo spunto per scrivere e chiarirsi le idee, analogamente si serviva spesso di nuove idee per gettare luce su eventi passati. Quello che ne esce e l'immagine di un Dick che non e solo un visionario creatore di fiction, ma anche un illuminante e originale pensatore.

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)

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.

Una de las mejores novelas de Philip K. Dick, y sin duda la más leída, esta obra es una alucinante pesadilla tecnológica, cuyo tema principal es el impreciso límite entre lo natural y lo artificial. En un mundo devastado, lleno de restos tecnologicos y bloques de apartamento vacios, Rick Deckard es un cazador mercenario cuya tarea consiste en retirar de la circulacion a los androides rebeldes, profesion que es causa tambien de no pocos problemas con su esposa. Sin embargo, los nuevos Nexus-6 son androides con caracteristicas especiales, casi humanos, lo que dificulta notablemente su labor y puede llevarle a enfrentarse a problemas que es incapaz de imaginar siquiera.En esta esplendida novela se baso Ridley Scott para su pelicula Blade Runner, un hito en el genero de la ciencia ficcion que recrea con logica implacable algunas de las caracteristicas del mundo de nuestros dias y plantea una serie de temas de plena actualidad.Se ha dicho que sin la version cinematografica de Blade Runner no existiria la trilogia Matrix tal como la conocemos, y sin duda la version de Ridley Scott no existiria sin la novela original de Philip K. Dick, un clasico de la literatura que dio pie a un clasico del cine.Con una nueva traduccion actualizada y precedida de un fino prologo de uno de los grandes maestros de la ciencia ficcion, Roger Zelazny,la inclusion de este titulo en Edhasa Literaria corresponde a la voluntad de reconocerle una calidad e importancia literaria que hoy ya nadie pone en duda.

Minotauro incluye al fin en su catálogo una de las novelas más importantes de la primera epoca de Philip K. Dick y en la que se inspiró El show de Truman.Ragle Gumm es un hombre corriente con una vida corriente. Pero tiene una manera de ganarse la vida de lo mas singular: cada dia participa en el concurso diario del periodico local "¿Donde estara la proxima vez el hombrecito verde?", y siempre gana. Ha ganado durante los tres ultimos años, sin excepcion. Sin embargo, esta idilica existencia cambiara de manera drastica cuando Ragle Gumm sienta la inquietud de salir del pueblo, cosa que no ha hecho nunca, y se de cuenta de que una autoridad desconocida se lo impide. Poco a poco, Ragle empieza a sospechar que su mundo no es mas que una ilusion, construida a su alrededor con el unico proposito de mantenerlo docil y feliz. Pero si esta en lo cierto, ¿como es el mundo exterior y que hace en realidad cada dia cuando cree que intenta adivinar donde estara el hombrecito verde?

This previously unpublished novel is remarkable for a number of reasons, probably the least of which is novelistic merit. Stuart Hadley is a young man born to privilege; he is handsome and educated; his pregnant wife is devoted to him; he has worked his way up from salesman to manager of a television and radio shop, but he wants more. The more he wants is not clear, even to him, and his existential crisis involves him with a shady, quasi-religious sect, the Society of the Watchmen of Jesus, led by a charismatic evangelist. Stuart''s flirtation with the movement soon leads him away from his placid middle-class life into a sinister association with a mysterious femme fatale, Marsha Frazier. His decline is accelerated by psychotic depression that spirals into life-threatening self-destruction. Like much of Dick''s fiction, the plot skims ambiguously along an abstract surface, only occasionally revealing concrete motivation or linear connection. But that''s what endears Dick''s novels to millions of readers nearly 25 years after his death, and that''s what makes him a significant postwar American novelist. Shallow characterization and crude dialogue show a young novelist groping for style. Still, echoes of Dick''s contemporaries such as Ralph Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler and early Kurt Vonnegut Jr. resonate, and a bonus exists in Dick''s impeccable eye for detail. Apart from creating an ambience that complements the novel, he provides a veritable literary museum of the early 1950s, replete with the period''s social and political attitudes and dozens of references to everyday items, commonplace practices that underscore and illuminate this significant transitional period in American culture. Literary critics will have a field day; Dick fans will be in rapture. (Jan.)Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

El futuro. La falta de recursos naturales en la Tierra ha obligado al hombre a colonizar otros planetas, y para trabajar bajo sus duras condiciones, ha creado réplicas de humanos conocidas como andrillos. Rick Deckard es un cazador de bonifi caciones que caza réplicas de hombres que han huido de las colonias para vivir como verdaderos humanos. Una tarea que se complicará cuando tenga que dar caza a una nueva generación de andrillos, los Nexus 6, lo que le hará comenzar a dudar de su propia humanidad.

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.