Amazon has put a large collection of the works of legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick on sale for $1.99 each, and there are even a couple priced at just 99 cents!
A Scanner Darkly (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person.
Substance D doesn’t just alter the mind, it splits it in two, and neither side knows what the other is doing or that it even exists. Now, both sides are growing increasingly paranoid as Bob tries to evade Fred while Fred tries to evade his suspicious bosses.
In this award-winning novel, friends can become enemies, good trips can turn terrifying, and cops and criminals are two sides of the same coin. Dick is at turns caustically funny and somberly contemplative, fashioning a novel that is as unnerving as it is enthralling.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
“A psychedelic odyssey of hallucinations-within-hallucinations from which no reader emerges unscathed.”—Boston Globe
On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence. Especially when the drug is Can-D, which translates its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat. When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one that might bring the user closer to God. But in a world where everyone is tripping, no promises can be taken at face value.
This Nebula Award nominee is one of Philip K. Dick’s enduring classics, at once a deep character study, a dark mystery, and a tightrope walk along the edge of reality and illusion.
The Man In The High Castle (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
“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.
Winner of the Hugo Award
Valis (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s ground-breaking novel, and the first book in his defining trilogy.
When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy, or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.
VALIS is essential reading for any true Philip K. Dick fan, a novel that Roberto Bolaño called “more disturbing than any novel by [Carson] McCullers.”
By the end, like Dick himself, you will be left wondering what is real, what is fiction, and just what the price is for divine inspiration.
The Best of Philip K. Dick – Unexpurgated Edition (4/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
Contents:
Beyond the Door
Beyond Lies the Wub
The Crystal Crypt
The Defenders
The Gun
The Skull
The Eyes Have It
Second Variety
The Variable Man
Mr. Spaceship
Piper in the Woods
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (4/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
“A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn’t a legend and he wasn’t mad. He lived among us, and was a genius.”—Jonathan Lethem
Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick’s brilliant, and epic, final work.
In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called “2-3-74,” a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe “transformed into information.” In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick’s life and work.
The e-book includes a sample chapter from A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick.
The Penultimate Truth (4/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99)
“At a time when most 20th-century science fiction writers seem hopelessly dated, Dick gives us a vision of the future that captures the feel of our time.”—Wired
In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they’ve fled.
Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return aboveground.
But when Nick St. James, president of one anthill, makes an unauthorized trip to the surface, what he finds is more shocking than anything he could imagine.
Adjustment Team (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at 99 cents)
This book contains sci-fi stories of Philip K. Dick as follows:
– Adjustment Team
– The Skull
– The Defenders
The newly released American Thriller film title “The Adjustment Bureau” is based loosely on the “Adjustment Team” story by Philip K. Dick.
This book features a hyperlinked table of contents.
Grab a copy of this book to enjoy the original story version that inspired the director of The Adjustment Bureau George Nolfi.
11 Science Fiction Stories by Philip K. Dick (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at 99 cents)
Philip K Dick was one of the most prolific science fiction writers of all time.
Now 11 of his first stories are available on the Kindle platform.
This edition features a link table of contents so that you can skip between stories with ease. The text and spacing is formatted in such a way as to be readable on any Kindle device regardless of your settings. The text is totally re-sizable.
Stories Included:
Beyond Lies the Wub
Beyond the Door
The Crystal Crypt
The Defenders
The Gun
The Skull
The Eyes Have It
Second Variety
The Variable Man
Mr. Spaceship
Piper in the Woods
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Second Variety – Unexpurgated Edition (5/5 stars, currently priced at 99 cents)
This Halcyon Classics ebook is SECOND VARIETY by acclaimed science fiction author Philip K. Dick. Dick (1928-1982) is best known for his novel DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
This novel was adapted for the big screen as the film BLADERUNNER.
The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace—if it could!
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.