Philip K. Dick

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  • Bibliography:
    85 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    March 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Valis

1 - Valis (Jul-1991)
2 - The Divine Invasion (Jan-1981)
3 - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (Apr-1983)

Book List in Order: 85 titles

  • Second Variety

    in Future War
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    This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1953 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ''Second Variety'' is a short story about the aftermath of a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the Unite...

  • Solar Lottery

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    From the acclaimed author of Ubik -- in the future, Earth’s leader is randomly chosen by a computer, but some are unwilling to leave everything to chance.In 2203 anyone can become the ruler of the solar system. There are no elections, no inter...

  • The World Jones Made

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    Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly, and quite possibly mad, but in a very short time he will rise from telling fortunes at a mutant carnival to convulsing an entire planet. For although Jones has the power to see the future -- a power that makes his lif...

  • Dr. Futurity

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    A STITCH IN TIME SAVES ... ? "He had a moment of shattering, blinding terror .. . Where was he? Why was he here? Had somebody brought him here, dumped him off at this spot for a reason?" Suddenly Dr. Jim Parsons realized that he had not been du...

  • Vulcan's Hammer

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    The artificial intelligence called Vulcan 3 ruled the human race, more than a ma-chine, less than a god. It had lifted mankind out of the dark pre-Machine ages. It had ended war, unemployment and poverty . . . but it had not ended the most corrosive ...

  • The Man in the High Castle

    What if the Allies had lost the Second World War ...? The Nazis have taken over New York - the Japanese control California. In a neutral buffer zone existing between the two states an underground author offers his own vision of reality, an alternativ...

  • The Game-Players of Titan

    This is the 1963 Ace Books paperback original, FIRST EDITION with Jack Gaughan cover art and cover code F-251. A classic Philip K. Dick novel, this one involves a depopulated, post-apocalyptic earth. The remaining humans play a board game called "Blu...

  • Clans of the Alphane Moon

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    Holding a precarious liberty as the result of an interstellar stalemate, the human survivors of Alpha Centauri's hospital moon readied themselves for their war of independence. Naturally, the Pares, always suspicious and cunning, assumed the leade...

  • Lies, Inc. // The Unteleported Man

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    Nobody would go to the stars the long way when you could travel to your new planetary Utopia the instant-teleportation way. That is, nobody reasonable would want to spend eighteen long years in a spaceship just to be stubborn about electronic transit...



  • Martian Time-Slip

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    Meet Goodmember Arnie Kott (member in good standing, that is) of the powerful plumbing union -- which has a stranglehold on Mars. Or Joe Bohlen, a slightly schizoid technician whose time sense has a way of slipping around on him. And the boy Ma...

  • The Penultimate Truth

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    A WORLD AT WAR... A radioactive, plague-tainted wilderness, where missiles and robot soldiers continued the work of total destruction, and most of mankind huddled underground, laboring to produce the weapons to continue the struggle... A WORLD AT...

  • The Simulacra

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    This is a novel of some very extraordinary people in the very extraordinary world of the 21st Century. They include a striking beauty who had ruled the White House for nearly a century, a pianist who played without touching the keyboard, the world...

  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

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    "Not too long from now, when exiles from a blistering Earth huddle miserably in Martian colonies, the only things that make life bearable are the drugs. Can-D ""translates"" those who take it into the bodies of Barbie-like dolls and opens up an idyll...

  • Dr. Bloodmoney

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    Thermonuclear war has just ravaged the planet leaving only pockets of civilisation. Walt Danger-field, an astronaut, remains in space to broadcast music and culture and organize what is left of this peace-loving post-bomb society peopled by biologica...

  • The Crack in Space

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    In the year 2080 every crisis of a couple of centuries had come to maturity. It was an election year, and Jim Briskin, candidate for President, was trying to solve the unsolvable and appease the unappeasable. There were tens of millions of people ...

  • We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

    REELING FROM THE REELS What was the original inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO? Where did David Cronenberg get the idea for THE FLY? Who dreamed up the character that Arnold Schwarzeneggar played in TOTAL RECALL? If you have ever wondered...

  • Counter-Clock World

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    In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick’s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase�"a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation sig...

  • Faith of our Fathers

    in Dangerous Visions #2

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? // Blade Runner

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    It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then... "retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked and acte...



  • Galactic Pot-Healer

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    There he was, Joe Fernwright, citizen of Cleveland (once "Ohio"), skilled mender--or, as he liked to think of it, healer--of ceramic pots. In a mostly plastic world, Joe was mostly unemployed, bored dizzy, and in a dangerous, try-anything mood. Th...

  • Our Friends from Frolix 8

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    Thors Provoni had gone to the stars to seek help for his fellow men. So far there was no evidence that anywhere out there existed any other intelligent race at all--let alone one willing to come to the aid of normal everyday homo sapiens on an Earth ...

  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

    THEODORE STURGEON writes: "I want to tell you about Philip K. Dick's new novel, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. It is not for nothing that the new rash of academic studies of sf, which may nod in passing to a parade of our greats, give whole pa...

  • Deus Irae

    An artist searches for God so he can paint his portrait in Philip K. Dick''s collaboration with Roger Zelazny. After World War III, the Servants of Wrath cult deified the mysterious Carlton Lufteufel, creator of the doomsday weapon that wiped out muc...

  • Ubik

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    Glen Runciter is dead. Or is everybody else? Someone died in an explosion orchestrated by Runciter's business competitors. And, indeed, it's the kingly Runciter whose funeral is scheduled in Des Moines. But in the meantime, his mourning employees are...

  • Best of Philip K Dick

    THE REALITY OF PHILIP K. DICK HERE -- IN THE DEFINITIVE PHILIP K. DICK COLLECTION--ARE 19 OF HIS MOST FAMOUS STORIES... STORIES THAT LOOK BEHIND WHAT IS APPARENTLY REAL TO WHAT IS REALLY REAL! IF THERE WERE NO BENNY CEMOLI Then it would have b...

  • Eye in the Sky

    “I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning.” -- Fantasy and Science FictionWhen a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group fi...

  • Time Out of Joint

    Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn’t consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that’s what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. ...

  • A Scanner Darkly

    ONE CAN LIVE AS DANGEROUSLY AS TWO IN THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS AND SPACED-OUT NOVEL IN YEARS! WHO'S WHO? Fred, the unstoppable undercover narc in a scramble suit that gave him virtual anonymity, was out to bust doper, pusher Robert Arctor. A snap for ...

  • The Zap Gun

    ALIEN SATELLITES CIRCLE THE EARTH - AND MAN'S ONLY HOPE IS A MAD CARTOONIST!

    The terrifying arms race roared on. Daily, East and West produced more dreadful weaponry. And, daily, yesterday's weapons were turned into toys, souvenirs, egg beaters, f...



  • The Divine Invasion

    Valis - 2

    IS GOD... a child, hurtled to earth in a starship, only to find Himself ruled by laws He Himself created? Is He an angry God emerging from a millennium of silence to take fiery vengeance on an Earth now ruled by the Christian-Islamic Church, the ...

  • Now Wait for Last Year

    Contacted by starmen of similar racial stock who have a greatly advanced, galactic society, a united Earth becomes their ally in a lengthy war with the Reegs, blue, six-limbed aliens with no vocal chords. This is the story of how Earth chose the wron...

  • Confessions of a Crap Artist

    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 ...

  • We Can Build You

    In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick tells a story of toxic love and compassionate robots. When Louis Rosen''s electronic organ company builds a pitch-perfect robotic replica of Abraham Lincoln, they are pulled into the orbit of a shady b...

  • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

    Valis - 3

    The final book in Philip K. Dick''s VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer brings the author''s search for the identity and nature of God to a close. The novel follows Bishop Timothy Archer as he travels to Israel, ostensibly to examine...

  • A Maze of Death

    Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only fourteen citizens, no one can trust anyone else and death can strike at any moment. The planet is vast and largely unexplored, populated mostly by gelatinous cube-shaped beings that give cryptic a...

  • The Cosmic Puppets

    Following an inexplicable urge, Ted Barton returns to his idyllic Virginia hometown for a vacation, but when he gets there, he is shocked to discover that the town has utterly changed. The stores and houses are all different and he doesn''t recognize...

  • I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  • In Milton Lumky Territory

    Bruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing typewriter store and he leaps at the suggestion. Then he realizes that Susan was his teacher...

  • Radio Free Albemuth

    In his last published novel, Philip K. Dick produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most...



  • The Broken Bubble

    This is the British paperback edition of this novel. Dick first wrote this book in the 1950's, but it remained unplublished until 1988. "The Broken Bubble is set in San Francisco in 1956 and focuses on four characters: local radio DJ Jim Briskin, his...

  • Mary and the Giant

    An early and daring novel from the Hugo Award-winning author about a young woman caught up in the glamor and dangers of 1950s CaliforniaMary Anne Reynolds is young, vulnerable, and looking for love in Pacific Park, California. During her brief affair...

  • The Ganymede Takeover

  • Valis

    Valis - 1

    VALIS is the first novel in a mesmerizing, science-fiction philosophical trilogy by Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award�"winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- the basis for the film Blade Runner.“Dick ...

  • The Man Who Japed

    Following a devastating nuclear war, the Moral Reclamation government took over the world and forced its citizens to live by strictly puritanical rules -- no premarital sex, drunkenness, or displaying of neon signs -- all of which are reinforced thro...

  • Paycheck

    With a Preface by the Author and an Introduction by Roger Zelazny

    "The collected stories of Philip K. Dick are awe inspiring." --The Washington Post

    Readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction wri...

  • Voices from the Street

    Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; a nice house, a pretty wife, and a decent job with prospects for advancement. Yet he still feels unfulfilled; some...

  • Humpty Dumpty in Oakland

    Set in San Francisco in the late 1950s, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate salesmen: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom Philip K.Dick always reserved his greatest sympath...

  • Nick and the Glimmung

    Nick has a problem. He has a cat named Horace, and cats are quite illegal on Earth. In fact all pets are illegal on Earth, and Horace has been reported to the anti-pet man. The only way for Nick and his family to keep Horace is to emigrate to Plowman...

  • Puttering About in a Small Land

    When Roger and Virginia Lindhal enroll their son Gregg in Mrs. Alt's Los Padres Valley School in the mountains of Southern California, their marriage is already in deep trouble. Then the Lindhals meet Chic and Liz Bonner, whose two sons also board...



  • The Early Works of Philip K. Dick

    Six early short stories by Philip K. Dick make up this collection with an active table of contents.Beyond Lies the WubBeyond the DoorThe Crystal CryptThe DefendersThe Gun The Skull...

  • The Father-Thing

  • The King of the Elves

    Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal worl...

  • Adjustment Team

    The Adjustment Bureau is a major motion picture based on Philip K. Dick's classic paranoid story, The Adjustment Team. This is the short story, The Adjustment Team, which asks the question - Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate u...

  • Beyond the Door

    "Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead --" wrote the editor of Fantastic Universe in January, 1954, blurbing this tale "-- that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and bl...

  • The Crystal Crypt

    Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl ... and the grim red planet was not far behind. "Attention, Inner-Flight ship! Attention! You are ordered to land at the Control Sta...

  • The Golden Man

    In the Secret of the Ages, Robert Collier shares with us the secrets of success. This book gives you the tools to have a happier and more successful life. Collier will show you how the way you think and the decisions you make have a direct influence ...

  • The Hanging Stranger

    From the lamppost something was hanging. A shapeless dark bundle, swinging a little with the wind. Like a dummy of some sort. Loyce rolled down his window and peered out. What the hell was it? A display of some kind? Sometimes the Chamber of Commerce...

  • Gather Yourselves Together

    Gather Yourselves Together is one of Philip K. Dick’s earliest novels, written when he was just twenty-four years old. It tells the story of three Americans left behind in China by their employer, biding their time as the Communists advance. As the...

  • Total Recall

    Philip K. Dick's classic short story tells the story of Douglas Quail, an unfulfilled bureaucrat who dreams of visiting Mars, but can't afford the trip. Luckily, there is Rekal Incorporated, a company that lets everyday stiffs believe they've been on...

  • Upon the Dull Earth

    Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal worl...

  • The Last of the Masters

    Two hundred years after the a global anarchist revolution has toppled the national governments of the world there comes a rumor of a government. The Anarchist League must search out this government and destroy it if it exists. By The Hugo Award Winni...

  • War Veteran

    Dr Joseph Murphy was the author of The Power of your Subconscious Mind. In Believe in Yourself Dr. Murphy shows you how the power of believing in yourself will help you achieve your dreams. He illustrates his points with wonderful stories about how i...

  • A World of Talent

    You've heard much in recent years about positive thinking. Out of the recessions and lean years another term has been born "prosperous thinking." The word "prosper" means "to flourish, succeed, thrive, to experience favorable results." This book plai...

  • Breakfast at Twilight

    Shell Game by Philip K. DickA SOUND awoke O'Keefe instantly. He threw back his covers, slid from the cot, grabbed his B-pistol from the wall and, with his foot, smashed the alarm box. High frequency waves tripped emergency bells throughout the camp. ...

  • The Crawlers

    When bizarre creatures begin plaguing a small farming town, a man from the nearby radioactive science laboratory is sent to investigate and deal with the problem.Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and essayist...

  • Exhibit Piece

    Similar in story to Philip K. Dick's riveting classic "Small Town," " Exhibit Piece" takes place In the distant future. An exhibit manufactured to demonstrate life in twentieth century America, takes on a living reality, and could become a permane...

  • Meddler

    From the visionary mind of Philip K. Dick, author of groundbreaking stories that inspired blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report, comes a compelling and suspenseful journey into the complexities of time travel in Me...

  • Shell Game

    When a group of men crash to the surface of an alien planet, they are hemmed in on all sides by a deadly, un-crossable bog. Attacked by an unknown enemy, the group grows increasingly uncertain as the violence escalates while the enemy combatant re...

  • The Turning Wheel

    The Turning Wheel is a science fiction story by Philip K. Dick.SynopsisBard Chai said thoughtfully, "Cults." He examined a tape-report grinding from the receptor. The receptor was rusty and unoiled; it whined piercingly and sent up an acrid wisp of s...

  • Beond the Door

    ""Beyond the Door" is a low fantasy short story by Philip K. Dick. The short story follows a cuckoo clock that was gifted by Larry Thomas to his wife, Dorris. The cuckoo clock, which may or may not be intelligent, serves as an ominous object througho...

  • PKD-13: Thirteen Short Stories

    13 classic stories by science fiction author Philip K. Dick.Includes:130 footnotes16 original illustrations"About the Author" segmentList of movies based on Philip K. Dick's worksList of Philip K. Dick's awards and nominationsExpertly formatted for e...

  • Beyond Lies The Wub

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    The wub stood sagging, its great body settling slowly. It was sitting down, its eyes half shut. A few flies buzzed about its flank, and it switched its tail. It sat. There was silence. "It's a wub," Peterson said. "I got it from a native for fifty...

  • The Dark Haired Girl

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  • The Defenders

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    No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war -- perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves! "They pasted Moscow again last night." Taylor nodded his head in approval. "Gave it a real pounding. One of those...

  • The Eyes Have It

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    Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way. . . . Start here: It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Ea...

  • The Gun

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    The Captain peered into the eyepiece of the telescope. He adjusted the focus quickly. "It was an atomic fission we saw, all right," he said presently. He sighed and pushed the eyepiece away. "Any of you who wants to look may do so. But it's not a ...

  • In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis

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    Excerpts from the late science fiction writer's personal journal include autobiographical material as well as discussions of mystical experiences, philosophical speculation, comments on his fictional works, and plot outlines...

  • Loteria Solar

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  • Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike

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    The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike was written by Philip K. Dick in the winter and spring of 1960, in Point Reyes Station, California. In the sequence of Dick's work, it was written immediately after Confessions of a Crap Artist and just b...

  • The Minority Report

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    In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses "precogs"--people with the power to see into the future--to identify criminals before t...

  • Mr. Spaceship

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    The story is set in the distant future, where humanity is at war with "Yuks", an alien life form which does not use mechanical spaceships nor constructions. Instead, it relies on life forms. The war has been going on for a long time, and humanity ...

  • Piper In The Woods

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  • The Skull

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    Conger, the protagonist, is given a chance to get out of jail if he agrees to travel back in time and kill a man. He has agreed to kill a stranger he has never seen. He isn't concerned about getting the wrong man. He knows what the man looked like...

  • Tony and the Beetles

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    This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1953 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Tony And The Beetles' is a short story about racism on a colony world. Philip Kindred Dick was born on Decembe...

  • The Variable Man

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    Excerpt: ... were planes, all right. Black wingless planes, coming closer each moment. Now he could hear them, a faint dull buzz, increasing until the ground shook under him. The first plane dived. It dropped like a stone, swelling into a great black...

Award-Winning Books by Philip K. Dick

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
1975 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
The Man in the High Castle
1963 Hugo Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Philip K. Dick has published 85 books.

Philip K. Dick does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, PKD-13: Thirteen Short Stories, was published in March 2015.

The first book by Philip K. Dick, Second Variety, was published in January 1953.

Yes. Philip K. Dick has 1 series.
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