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Fred is an agent who is so far undercover, even his boss doesn't know his true identity. Because his job requires him to ingest drugs, he has developed a split personality named Bob who has a thriving career dealing an addictive substance which makes people uninterested in human contact.

This volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as BLADERUNNER), MARTIAN TIME SLIP, UBIK, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and A SCANNER DARKLY. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick's unique imagination. In Dick's writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world's order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. Films such as THE MATRIX and THE TRUMAN SHOW would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.

Rybys y Herb son los únicos colonizadores humanos de un lejano planeta, pero viven aislados entre sí, hasta que Herb es llamado por Yah (Dios o el espíritu del planeta) para que acuda en ayuda de Rybys. A él le iba bien pasarse el día escuchando a su cantante favorita, pero Dios le destroza el equipo de música. Cuando Rybys queda en estado, deben volver a la Tierra, donde su hijo deberá enfrentarse al malvado Belial, que ha corrompido la pureza del planeta y sus habitantes. En su misión colaborará Elías Tate, un anciano místico que es la expresión terrena de Elías, el amigo de la humanidad. Por accidente o por voluntad de Belial, Rybys muere y Emmanuel nace con daños cerebrales que le impiden recordar su destino cósmico, pero varios personajes le irán presentando la naturaleza del conflicto eterno. 

Objective, unbiased and hyperrational, the Vulcan 3 should have been the perfect ruler. The omnipotent computer dictates policy that is in the best interests of all citizens—or at least, that is the idea. But when the machine, whose rule evolved out of chaos and war, begins to lose control of the "Healer" movement of religious fanatics and the mysterious force behing their rebellion, all Hell breaks loose. Written in 1960, Philip K. Dick's paranoid novel imagines a totalitarian state in which hammer-headed robots terrorize citizens and freedom is an absurd joke. William Barrios, the morally conflicted hero, may be the only person who can prevent the battle for control from destroying the world—if, that is, he can decide which side he's on.

Dick creates a fast-paced and thoughtful tale that ultimately addresses human salvation both as individuals and as a whole. Nick Appleton is a menial laborer, and Willis Gram is the feral despot atop the elite oligarchy ruling the planet. When they both fall in love with a feisty black marketer of revolutionary propaganda, Nick seems destined for doom.

Paycheck, originally written as a short story by Philip K. Dick and first published in 1953, centres on an electrician who wakes up to discover his employer has erased his memory of the past two years -- as a security measure. When he tries to collect his paycheck, he finds he had previously signed a release replacing the money with a bag of random objects. Previous film adaptations of Dick's short stories have included the box office smash hits MINORITY REPORT, TOTAL RECALL and BLADE RUNNER, released shortly after Dick died in 1982.

The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery. Everyone had a chance, everyone could live in hope that they would be chosen to be the boss, the Quizmaster. But with the power came the game - the assassination game - which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to avoid his chosen killer? Which made for fascinating and exciting viewing, compelling enough to distract the public's attention while the Big Five industrial complexes run the world, the solar system and the people, unnoticed and completely unopposed. Then, in 2203, with the choice of a member of a maverick cult as Quizmaster, the system developed a little hitch...

Ingénieur de réputation mondiale, Michael Jennings travaille sur des projets top secrets commandités par des sociétés de haute technologie. À l'issue de chaque mission, sa mémoire à court terme est effacée pour l'empêcher de divulger la moindre information confidentielle. Puis un chèque susbstantiel lui est remis. Mais cette fois, l'enveloppe ne contient pas d'argent, juste quelques objets hétéroclites et sans valeur ; et à en croire Rethrick, son dernier employeur, Jennings aurait lui-même renoncé par avance à ses honoraires habituels. Harcelé par un ennemi sans visage, Jennings n'a que quelques heures pour recomposer le puzzle de sa vie et découvrir ce qui se cache derrière les murs de Rethrick Corporation...

En un futuro cercano, la tercera guerra mundial se recrudece a marchas forzadas, y la Tierra, plagada de virus y radioactividad, resulta inhabitable; al menos, eso cree la inmensa mayoría de la poblacion que, confinada en factorias subterraneas, solo conoce del exterior lo que ve en los informes televisivos. Pero estos no ofrecen mas que mentiras sistematicas ideadas por profesionales del artificio, guardianes de una realidad radicalmente distinta: la guerra acabo hace años y el planeta es un gran jardin. Escrita en 1964, La penultima verdad anticipa el uso de la television como medio de manipulacion de masas. Dick pone de nuevo su salvaje imaginacion al servicio de la denuncia de los abusos del poder y del cuestionamiento de la naturaleza de la realidad. En esta suerte de reescritura del mito de la caverna, a su vez, desenmascara la esencia del capitalismo, que necesita del sometimiento para subsistir.

A mediados del siglo XXII, algunas personas han mutado desarrollando una inteligencia extraordinaria o poderes paranormales, lo que les ha permitido dominar al resto de la humanidad. Thors Provoni, que habia emprendido un viaje al espacio exterior en busca de ayuda, anuncia su inminente regreso a la Tierra, acompañado de un habitante del lejano planeta Frolik 8 que los ayudara a establecer un nuevo orden mundial. Dick nos brinda de nuevo una novela repleta de accion, humor y potentes personajes en la que reflexiona sobre los mecanismos del poder y las posibilidades de supervivencia de una sociedad dividida. Una historia de salvacion individual y colectiva que retrata lo mejor y lo peor de Occidente.

À bord d'un vaisseau spatial en route pour une lointaine planète-colonie, un passager émerge accidentellement de son hibernation : il devra passer seul avec lui-même les dix ans qui le séparent de sa destination. Le voyage auquel convie ce recueil est également celui qu'accomplit Dick de 1958 à 1981. Un voyage au cours duquel sa réflexion politique et morale s'enrichit de perspectives métaphysiques vertigineuses... Neuf nouvelles, neuf clés pour ouvrir les portes des univers divergents d'un auteur ayant inspiré quelques-uns des meilleurs films de science-fiction contemporains : Blade Runner de Ridley Scott, Minority Report de Steven Spielberg ou encore Paycheck de John Woo.

What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That's the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick's futuristic novel about political oppression, the show business of politics and the sinister potential of the military industrial complex. This wry, paranoid thriller imagines a future in which the earth has been ravaged, and cities are burnt-out wastelands too dangerous for human life. Americans have been shipped underground, where they toil in crowded industrial ant hills and receive a steady diet of inspiring speeches from a President who never seems to age. Nick St. James, like the rest of the masses, believed in the words of his leaders. But that all changes when he travels to the surface—where what he finds is more shocking than anything he could possibly imagine.

A mediados del siglo XXI el mundo vive aún traumatizado por las consecuencias de la Tercera Guerra Mundial, que provocó una regresión evolutiva y la aparición de unos hombres muy similares a los neandertales. El Gobierno de los EUAE (Estados Unidos de America y Europa) es un fraude, y su presidente, un androide. Por este inquietante panorama desfilan personajes tan insolitos como un pianista que toca sin manos y un Goring rescatado del pasado para atentar contra su Fuhrer.

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.