Free Download | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Bookworms Library) | Philip K. Dick

San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They're machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill. The film Blade Runner was based on this famous novel.

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Free Download | Ubik | Philip K. Dick

Chip works for Glen Runciter's anti-psi security agency, which hires out its talents to block telepathic snooping and paranormal dirty tricks. When its special team tackles a big job on the Moon, something goes terribly wrong. Runciter is killed, it seems--but messages from him now appear on toilet walls, traffic tickets, or product labels. Meanwhile, fragments of reality are timeslipping into past versions: Joe Chip's beloved stereo system reverts to a hand-cranked 78 player with bamboo needles. Why does Runciter's face appear on U.S. coins? Why the repeated ads for a hard-to-find universal panacea called Ubik.

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Free Download | A Maze of Death | Philip K. Dick Novels

Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.

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Free Download | Confessions of a Crap Artist | Philip K. Dick Novels

Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack's murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack's, but a great deal uglier.

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Free Download | Galactic Pot-Healer | Philip K. Dick Novels

What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.

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Free Download | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Philip K. Dick Novels

Aside from numerous technological inventions, Philip K. Dick has accurately predicted a multitude of trends in society, the natural environment and the government. Some of these trends have already come to pass and some may still yet be. His vision in 1974, when Flow My Tears was written, of the police-state that would emerge in 1988 America was essentially only a decade off. What many regarded as PKD's paranoia at the time is actually only inaccurate by the degree to which the U.S. has sacrificed personal freedoms. Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, like many of Dick's greatest works, rings eerily true today under W.'s "Reign of Error," with government wiretapping, citizen databases, legalized torture, labor camps etc. being the reality.

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Free Download | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick Novels

On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union--suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future. In Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.

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Free Download | Now Wait for Last Year | Philip K. Dick Novels

This one seldom gets a mention among Philip K. Dick's greats, like "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," "Ubik," "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and "The Man in the High Castle". With all due respect to those classics, it's a sin and a shame. This novel should be welcomed into that august company, and without delay. On the other hand, perhaps "Now Wait for Last Year" flew under the radar because the story is really so ordinary. You can wrap up the basic plot in a very few words; a doctor, in a bad marriage made worse by addiction, grows into a genuinely good man by means of the hardship thrown in his way by a high-pressure government job during wartime. Sort of a combination of "The Days of Wine and Roses" and "Dr. Zhivago". With poisonous addictive drugs and time travel thrown in.

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Free Download | Solar Lottery | Philip K. Dick Novels

Solar Lottery (I think this was Dick's first full-length novel) clearly shows Dick is learning the craft in moving from SF short story writer to novelist. If anyone has read any of the interview type books, Dick was really not making anything close to a livable income off of SF writing and felt pressured to crank out stories at a prolific rate (one of Dick's colleagues supposed that the stress of producing at anything close to producing a livable income was one of the major factors in Dick's early death).

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Free Download | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick Novels

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 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly 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 awake.

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Download : Time Out of Joint | Philip K. Dick Novels

Time Out of Joint

Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is.

The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959.

He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world’s long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests.

It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. And once he pursues his suspicions, he begins to see how he is the center of a universe gone terribly awry.

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Free Download | Valis | Philip K. Dick Novels

This novel is to me one of those things that you want people to understand, you want people to see in it the same things you do. It hurts me that this thing that I love so might be considered insignificant to someone else. Such is the nature of our experiance. VALIS will expose you to many interesting ideas regarding philosophy, religion, and reality. It is not the end all be all with regard to these things, but more a good primer. I don't follow the "zaney romp" or "fools search for God" school of thought on this book at all. It is quite funny, but I find the subject matter at its heart to be very serious and compelling, as one would expect the search for God to be. Phil Dick isn't joking around here. I don't have the words to convey to you all that VALIS means to me. I guess I can only say that touched me, moved me, made me laugh, and frightened me, and does so every time I read it. I become sad whenever I finish it, knowing I'm no longer participating in Horselover Fat's quest.

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Free Download | The Zap Gun | Philip K. Dick Novels

Scaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, The Zap Gun is Dick’s remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions–Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo even as he knows she’s trying to kill him.

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