Author: Michael Bishop
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312890025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Science fiction-roman.

Author: Michael Bishop
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9780812531572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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In an alternate universe, Richard M. Nixon, in the fourth term of the "imperial presidency," is about to undertake a fateful meeting

Author: Michael Bishop
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Languages : en
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Author: Michael Bishop
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9780312930318
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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In an alternate universe, Richard M. Nixon, in the fourth term of the "imperial presidency," is about to undertake a fateful meeting

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Voyager
ISBN: 9780006482857
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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As America gasps in a stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars. Will the agents of ominiscent Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the tactics of President Freemont extend the grip?

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547572298
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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A mind-bending, classic Philip K. Dick novel about the perception of reality. Named as one of Time's 100 best books.

Author: David F. Dufty
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 0805095578
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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The stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick In late January 2006, a young robotocist on the way to Google headquarters lost an overnight bag on a flight somewhere between Dallas and Las Vegas. In it was a fully functional head of the android replica of Philip K. Dick, cult science-fiction writer and counterculture guru. It has never been recovered. In a story that echoes some of the most paranoid fantasies of a Dick novel, readers get a fascinating inside look at the scientists and technology that made this amazing android possible. The author, who was a fellow researcher at the University of Memphis Institute of Intelligent Systems while the android was being built, introduces readers to the cutting-edge technology in robotics, artificial intelligence, and sculpture that came together in this remarkable machine and captured the imagination of scientists, artists, and science-fiction fans alike. And there are great stories about Dick himself—his inspired yet deeply pessimistic worldview, his bizarre lifestyle, and his enduring creative legacy. In the tradition of popular science classics like Packing for Mars and The Disappearing Spoon, How to Build an Android is entertaining and informative—popular science at its best.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547549253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1003

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"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.

Author: Emmanuel Carrere
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312424515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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The critically acclaimed author of The Adversary chronicles the life of the science fiction master, literary icon, and author of more than fifty novels, from his traumatic origins as the twin that lived, through his multiple marriages, drug odysseys, and tragic disintegration into madness. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547572484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.