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While sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a lab accident. When he regains consciousness, he is in a fantasy world of Old Testament morality gone awry--a place of instant plagues, immediate damnations, and death to all perceived infidels. Hamilton figures out how he and his compatriots can escape this world and return to their own, but first they must pass through three other vividly fantastical worlds, each more perilous and hilarious than the one before. 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.

He fixed things - clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in the future, where the calculators could not handle him. He was Earths only hope - and its sure failure! Philip K. Dick is one of the greatest science fiction writers to ever live.

Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to practice in a world full of the maladjusted. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has never met. Richard Kongrosian refuses to see anyone because he is convinced his body odor is lethal. And the fascistic Bertold Goltz is trying to overthrow the government. With wonderful aplomb, Philip K. Dick brings this story to a crashing conclusion and in classic fashion shows there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see.

Una invasión extraterrestre amenaza con triunfar a causa de la moda y la política terrestres. Novela de ciencia ficción inédita en castellano del autor más importante del género.Lars Powderdry es diseñador de moda armamentistica. Bendecido por su talento de medium, sus diseños permiten al Bloque Oeste mantener la frenetica carrera armamentistica con el Sector Este, en un constante equilibrio que, a traves del miedo, asegura la paz en la Tierra.Hasta que unos satelites alienigenas se situan en Orbita y comienzan a vaporizar ciudades de ambos bandos.La pistola de rayos destila un humor irreverente y sarcastico, que Dick esgrime para arremeter contra la paranoia que reinaba durante la guerra fria y, al mismo tiempo, señalar la impostura adoptada para dotar de sentido la vida y acallar la voz interna que alerta de los absurdos de esta. La mirada inquieta e impertinente del californiano busca sacudir los cimientos de la sociedad, en un paso intermedio en la busqueda de la naturaleza ultima del Cosmos.

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 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.

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. 

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.

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.

La primera recopilación de relatos del autor, que reúne por orden cronológico sus primeros 25 cuentos.Además de novelista, Philip K. Dick fue un prolífico autor de cuentos y relatos, muchos de los cuales han sido llevados al cine en los ultimos tiempos con mayor o menor suerte. Toda su produccion breve fue reunida en cinco volumenes que ahora Minotauro recupera en una edicion revisada.Esta primera entrega recoge 25 relatos escritos entre 1951 y 1952, y empieza con Estabilidad, una historia escrita en 1947 e inedita antes de la publicacion de esta antologia. Los lectores del creador de Blade Runner descubriran el potencial imaginativo de Dick en estado puro, autenticas joyas literarias como los relatos El rey de los Elfos y Los infinitos, entre otros trabajos sin pulir, pero que destilan la magia propia del norteamericano y donde son ya claras sus pequeñas obsesiones: la muerte, la locura, la perdida de identidad y la fragilidad de la realidad y, con ella, de todos nosotros.Cuentos completos Itambien incluye La paga, relato que sirvio de inspiracion para el filme Paycheck , que dirigio John Woo en 2003 con Ben Aflleck y Uma Thurman. El volumen presenta una introduccion del propio autor y un prefacio con notas y comentarios que ayuda al lector a acercarse a uno de los escritores mas relevantes del siglo XX.

Una guerra nucleare ha ridotto il pianeta Terra a un ammasso di cenere. Il governo americano e fuggito sulla Luna, lasciando indietro i soldati a combattere una guerra logorante contro la Russia. I russi sembrano vincere, ma a un certo punto, dalle profondita delle fabbriche nel sottosuolo, emergono gli artigli, mostruosi robot che capovolgono le sorti del conflitto. Tutto sembra andare a loro favore, finche un giorno un corriere russo non arriva nel campo, portando con se una richiesta di pace. È davvero la fine del conflitto o si tratta di una trappola?

A nuclear war has reduced planet Earth to a pile of ashes. The American government has fled to the Moon, leaving behind soldiers to fight a wearisome war against Russia. The Russians seem to be winning, but at some point, from the depths of the factories underground, the claws emerge, monstrous robots that turn the tide of the conflict. Everything seems to be going in their favour, until one day a Russian courier arrives in the camp, bringing with him a request for peace. Is it really the end of the conflict or is it a trap?

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.

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.

Glenn Runciter ha muerto. ¿O lo han hecho todos los demás? Esta cáustica comedia metafísica de muerte y salvación (servida en cómodo aerosol) es un tour de force de amenaza paranoica y diversión sin trabas, en la que los fallecidos dan consejos comerciales, compran su siguiente encarnacion, y corren continuamente el riesgo de morir de nuevo.