As faith in economic stability and the old social order crumbled, a new basis for society had to be found by governments.Minimax supplied that need - a sort of elaborate solar lottery based on quiz games that spanned the nine planet system. A...
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It was as good as a real Abe Lincoln...or as bad, if you looked at it that way. Going into simulacra production was not the obvious step for a firm hitherto devoted to the manufacture of electronic organs, but business was...
Whale's Mouth was a planetary utopia for forty million Earth colonists - but none ever returned. It took only 15 minutes to get there by instant teleportation, but it was strictly a one-way journey. If you wanted to return, it was always possible to...
Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to...
The Philip K Dick...
"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds."– Wall Street JournalMany thousands of readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet....
Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction. Book 9:...
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...
"The claws were bad enough in the first place--nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace--if it could!" Philip K. Dick said of his story "Second Variety" "My...