Philip K. Dick
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English
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By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep... They even built humans. Immigrants to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial...
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English
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"It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal 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 being occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan." -- Page [4] cover.
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English
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Set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. Based on the experiences of the author, Philip K. Dick.
4) Total Recall
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The inspiration for the film Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale, and directed by Len Wiseman. This ebook-only edition of 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 incredible adventures. The only problem is that when technicians
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Combining political intrigue, time travel, family drama, and all the perils that come with being the first at anything, Hugo Award—winning author Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip follows a group of exiled colonists on Mars and the ten-year-old psychic among them, a boy so powerful he not only looks into the future but can send people there.
On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land before the UN develops...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
First Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
9) Total recall
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Special ed. ; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2084 a worker leaves Earth for the mind-bending nightmarish reality of a Martian mining colony ruled over by a dictator who can alter reality to suit his whims.
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Pub. Date
2001
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5 audio discs : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes stories that will make you lough, cringe...and stop and think. The Minority Report: a special unit that employs those with the power of precognition to prevent crimes proves itself less than reliable... We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: an everyguy's...
Author
Series
Short stories volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This generous collection contains 22 stories and novellas written in 1953 and 1954, along with extensive and valuable story notes. Included here are a number of bona fide PKD classics, among them the title story, the brilliantly conceived account of a bizarre, ultimately catastrophic resurrection, 'The Father-Thing,' in which a young boy comes to realize that his once familiar father has somehow changed, and 'The Golden Man' (filmed in 2007 as 'Next'),...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (164 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
14) Blade runner
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color, double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.
17) Paycheck
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Michael Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business, so his friend hires him to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when the job is completed. At the end of the job, his short-term memories are erased, then he learns that he had agreed to forfeit his pay for the three-year job in exchange for some worthless trinkets. He has no recourse until he receives an envelope with mysterious clues to his forgotten...
18) Next
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him. He can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low in Vegas under an assumed name. There, he performs cheap tricks and lives off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government...
19) Minority report
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up.
20) Minority report
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up.