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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    In Second Variety, UN forces have retreated to a moon base in the aftermath of early Soviet victories in a nuclear conflict. In response, the UN forces developed special robots, called Claws, which feature spinning blades and rudimentary artificial i...

  • 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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    A psychic man has the power to change a post-apocalyptic world in this science fiction novel from the author of Solar Lottery.   Precognition; a world ruled by Relativism; giant alien jellyfish. The World Jones Made is a classic P...

  • 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

    In this Hugo Awardâ€"winning alternative history classic -- the basis for the Amazon Original series -- the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West. It’s America in 1...

  • The Game-Players of Titan

    Years ago, Earth and Titan fought a war and Earth lost. The planet was irradiated and most of the surviving population is sterile. The few survivors play an intricate and unending game called Bluff at the behest of the slug-like aliens who rule the p...

  • 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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    A Nebula Awardâ€"nominee from the Hugo Awardâ€"winning author of The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch explores the desolation of the minds, souls, and hearts of colonists on Mars in “a psychedelic odyss...

  • 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 Phaseâ€"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 m...

  • 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

    From the Hugo Awardâ€"winning author of The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's twisty and paranoid Time Out of Joint is "marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you’ve ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep...

  • 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

    From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Awardâ€"winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- the basis for the film Blade Runner -- Now Wait for Last Year is the novel of an Earth caught in an interstellar war and of...

  • Confessions of a Crap Artist

    "A funny, horribly accurate portrait of a life in California in the Fifties." -- Rolling StoneJack Isidore doesn't see the world like most people. According to his brother-in-law Charlie, he’s a crap artist, obsessed with his own bizarre theories a...

  • We Can Build You

    A man enters the android-making business and falls in love with a mysterious woman in this novel from the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick intertwines the story of a toxic love affair...

  • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

    Valis - 3

    From the acclaimed author of VALIS, the world of an Episcopal bishop is shaken up by death and the discovery of ancient scrolls in Israel. The final book in Philip K. Dick’s VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer br...

  • A Maze of Death

    From Hugo Awardâ€"winning author Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death is a sci-fi murder mystery set on a mysterious planet where colonists experience unexplained shifts in reality and perception.Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only fourt...

  • The Cosmic Puppets

    A man’s hometown is drastically changed -- and no one knows what he’s talking about -- in this science fiction novel from the author of The Zap Gun. Following an inexplicable urge, Ted Barton returns to his idyllic Virginia hometown for...

  • 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 Awardâ€"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

    In Beyond the Door, a man buys a cuckoo clock for his wife who has always wanted one. When he catches her cheating on him, the man throws his wife out of the house with her lover. Though he never really cared for the clock, he keeps winding it becaus...

  • The Crystal Crypt

    In The Crystal Crypt, Earth and Mars are poised on the verge of war. On the last spaceship to leave Mars for Earth, law enforcement officials are looking for three fugitives who somehow made a great Martian city disappear. Unable to find the perpetra...

  • The Golden Man

    From the mind of Philip K. Dick, the visionary author behind blockbuster films like Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report, comes a gripping tale of humanity's future, The Golden Man.Dive into a post-apocalyptic world where powerful mutants, ...

  • The Hanging Stranger

    In The Hanging Stranger, TV salesman Ed Loyce is a practical man who, when he sees something wrong tries to correct it. Then one day he sees a lifeless body hanging in the town square. What he can't figure out is, why nobody seems to care....

  • 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

    From the legendary author of Blade Runner and Minority Report, Philip K. Dick presents The Last of the Masters-- an unrivalled science fiction classic that has gained prominence for its thought-provoking exploration of anarchism, statism, and the rol...

  • 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

    From the visionary mind of Philip K. Dick, the author behind sci-fi classics such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report, comes a mind-bending journey through time and war in Breakfast at Twilight. Originally published in 1954, this short...

  • 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

    Twenty-second century historian George Miller is completely dedicated to his job studying the history and culture of the twentieth century, and has even created an accurate replica of a twentieth-century dwelling. But when George investigates an odd ...

  • 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

    Delve into the mind-bending world of Philip K. Dick's Shell Game, a crucial piece from the master of psychological science fiction who brought us cult classics such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.In this gripping short story, a gr...

  • The Turning Wheel

    Discover a hidden gem from the mind of master storyteller Philip K. Dick, the prolific author behind blockbuster films like Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report. The Turning Wheel is an enthralling post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story that ...

  • 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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    In Beyond Lies the Wub, the crew of a spaceship buys a wub, a large pig-like animal from a native martian to eat on the way home. The Wub turns out to be a sentient being capable of intelligent conversation, empathy, and possibly telepathy and mind c...

  • The Dark Haired Girl

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  • The Defenders

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    Threatened by impending nuclear war, both the USA and the Soviet Union have retreated deep underground, locking themselves in fortified subterranean bunkers. In their stead, robots they've nicknamed "Leadys" have been fighting in their place, waging ...

  • The Eyes Have It

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    The Eyes Have It is a humorous, early short story by Philip K. Dick that first appeared in Science Fiction Stories in 1953. In it, a bus-riding reader of a discarded melodrama with an overactive imagination is persuaded by the hackneyed prose that th...

  • The Gun

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    In The Gun, a group of space explorers are shot down above a deserted planet. While some of the crew work on repairing the ship, the remainder set out to investigate the planet. Otherwise unpopulated, they discover the huge gun that shot them down si...

  • 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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    In Mr. Spaceship, humans in the distant future are at war with alien life forms known as Yuks. Using outdated, mechanical machines to wage war against the life-based weapons of the advanced Yuks, a research team decides to build a spaceship powered b...

  • Piper In The Woods

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  • The Skull

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    In The Skull, a convict is offered his freedom if he agrees to travel back in time and kill someone. He learns that the assasination target was the founder of a religious sect that grew in strength and influence from its inception in 1960. Carrying h...

  • Tony and the Beetles

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    In Tony and the Beetles, ten-year old Tony Rossi, an Earthman growing up on Betelgeuse, becomes aware that the natives, known as the Pas-Udeti, are driving out the Earthmen colonists on nearby Orion. His father, a staunch believer in the superiority ...

  • The Variable Man

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    In The Variable Man, Earth (The Terran System) is in a cold war with the older, corrupt Centaurian System, suppresses Terra from exploring space and expandig its borders. When a devastating new weapon called Icarus is developed by Terra, everyone exp...

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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