The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery and when the magnetic lottery bottle twitched, anyone could become the absolute ruler of the world, the Quizmaster.But with the power...
Comprising:Nanny (1955)The Turning Wheel (1953)The Defenders (1953)Adjustment Team (1954)Psi-Man (Psi-Man Heal My Child!) (1955)The Commuter (1953)A Present for Pat (1954)Breakfast at Twilight (1954)Shell Game...
"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....
s/t: Selected Literary and Philosophical WritingsA collection of largely unpublished or out-of-print essays, journals, speeches, and interviews on issues from the merging of physics and metaphysics to the potential influences and consequences of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In a futuristic world of fast-growing technology, corporate expansion in oute space, and plenty of violence, a carefully trained bodyguard whose human memories have been blocked by a metal plate offers perfect protection for a high...