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Three American workers are left behind in China by their employer, biding their time in an abandoned factory as the communists approach. As they while away the days, both the young and naive Carl Fitter and the older, worldly Verne Tildon vie for the affections of Barbara Mahler, a woman who may not be as tough as she acts. But Carl's innocence and Verne's boorishness might drive Barbara away from both of them...This early novel by Dick, unpublished in his lifetime, is a remarkable insight into his future works.

San Francisco in the 1950s, a turning point in American culture: the rise of rock and roll and the teenage lifestyle. Jim Briskin is a disc jockey on radio KOIF. He's still in love with his ex-wife, Pat - even though she's about to marry someone else at the station - and she's vacillating between them. But when he takes her to visit the desperate household of two of his teenage fans, she seduces the boy into abandoning his pregnant wife - who then claims Jim as her protector and support. And all around them the cultural upheaval of postwar American society is manifest, by teenage outcasts who have a remote-controlled Nazi automobile they use to bump into the rich kids' cars; by Thisbe Holt, the dancer who performs for conventioneers by stuffing herself inside a clear plastic bubble; by blaring used-car ads and the conflict between generations. Dick gives us a vision of redemption tempered with layered ironies and a lot of real humour.

Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life. He has a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement - but he still feels unfulfilled. Something is missing from his life. Hadley is also an angry young man - an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, then sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working and it is driving him crazy. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear. Is there anything that can bring him back to the world? Winner of both the HUGO and JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDs for BEST NOVEL, Philip K. Dick is widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day. The object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, he 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.

Leo Runcible - of Runcible Realty - is too excitable and too pushy. His wife drinks too much. He may be a man of principle, but Liberal Jewish Leo is an outsider in the lilywhite Carquinez, Marin County. When he gets into a pointless argument with a customer over his neighbour Walt Dombrosio's house guests, the resulting ramifications follow a bizarre logic of cause and effect to lead in entirely unexpected directions...And can Leo really have found the skull of a Neanderthal man in middle America? THE MAN WHOSE TEETH WERE ALL EXACTLY ALIKE is a dazzling novel by a writer famous for his power to surprise and delight.

Now an Amazon Original series Winner of the Hugo Award "The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career"--New York Times It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

Based on the stories contained in this volume, the ten-part anthology series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams is written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander) and Michael Dinner (Justified, Masters of Sex), with Oscar nominated Bryan Cranston (Trumbo, Breaking Bad) both executive producing and appearing in the series. Each episode will be a sharp, thrilling standalone drama adapted and contemporised for global audiences by a creative team of British and American writers. The series will both illustrate Philip K. Dick's prophetic vision and celebrate the enduring appeal of the prized Sci-Fi novelist's work. Other guest stars include Janelle Morae, Anna paquin, Timothy Spall and Benedict Wong. The ten stories included are: THE HANGING STANGER, THE COMMUTER, THE FATHER-THING, EXHIBIT PIECE, IMPOSSIBLE PLANET, SALES PITCH, FOSTER YOU'RE DEAD, THE HOOD MAKER, HOLY QUARREL, IF THERE WERE NO BENNY CEMOLI, AUTOFAC and HUMAN IS

Mit lehet tenni, ha maga az idő beteg? Jim Parsons remek, elkötelezett orvos, aki a legfejlettebb technikákkal gyógyít és mindennél többre tartja az emberéletet. Így aztán kétszeresen is szorult helyzetbe kerül, amikor egy különös autóbaleset révén a jövőben találja magát, méghozzá egy fejlett társadalomban, ahol azonban az életmentés törvénybe ütközik. Szerencsére azért itt sem csak Parsons hisz az élet szentségében, és akik osztják a nézeteit, az ő orvosi képességeit akarják felhasználni egy titkos, kétségbeesett tervhez a saját és társadalmuk jövője érdekében, amely tervhez azonban vissza kell utazni a múltba is. A jövő orvosa nem csupán egy rémisztő jövőképet tár elénk, de egyúttal az időutazás paradoxonjait is vizsgálja, mégpedig úgy, ahogy arra csak Philip K. Dick képes.

A távoli jövőben bárki lehet a Naprendszer vezetője: nincsenek választások, nincsenek alkalmassági tesztek, nincs semmiféle feltétel. Minden az űrlottón múlik, és amikor a mágneses lottópalack pörög, bárkiből a világ abszolút uralkodója, a Kvízmester lehet. Csakhogy, amikor egy új Kvízmester hatalomra kerül, az elődjének még vannak bizonyos jogai, például orgyilkosokat küldhet az új vezető meggyilkolására. 2203-ban egy különös szekta vezetője lesz az új Kvízmester, és az addig zökkenőmentesen működő rendszer hirtelen akadozni kezd. A korábbi vezető mindent megtesz, hogy olyan orgyilkost találjon, aki átjut a telepata testőrökön, ám amikor az egyik alkalmazott átáll a másik oldalra, aggasztó tények kerülnek napvilágra a lottórendszerről, és elképzelhető, hogy ezúttal senki nem nyerhet. Az Űrlottó, Philip K. Dick első, 1955-ben megjelent regénye még ma is szellemes és egyéni, okos és lebilincselő mű.

Substance D -- otherwise known as Death -- is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without knowing what is happening to him, he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.

Čtvrtý soubor povídek P. K. Dicka, nekorunovaného krále sci-fi, obsahující slavnou povídku Minority Report, podle níž vznikl film Stevena Spielberga s Tomem Cruisem v hlavní roli.