Philip K Dick
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In a 1978 interview, Philip K. Dick said 'I've always had this funny feeling about reality. It just seems very feeble to me sometimes. It doesn't seem to have the substantiality that it's suppose to have.' Fortunately for us, Dick translated his feelings about reality into some of the greatest science fiction writing of all time. This collection features five stories from early in his career, when he found his voice as a writer. In 'The Gun,' a
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Philip K. Dick is well known for his innovative approach to life and the problems and challenges of the future. These five stories were picked to show the breath and scope of his mind. They are:
1 - The Skull
2 - Beyond the Door
3 - The Eyes Have It
4 - The Hanging Stranger
5 - Beyond Lies the Wub
43) Prize Ship
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It is outrageous! A tiny moon, Ganymede, with no military to speak of is holding all the other planets of the Sol system hostage. The other planets of the system are impotent to do anything because Ganymede controls the cradles from which all support for the new colonies on Proxima Centauri must begin. No one saw this coming and frustrations and accusations are flying. One tiny ray of hope that appears is the unexpected capture of an experimental...
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Ed Loyce lives a happy and normal life is a happy and normal small town in mid America. But today something strange happens. In the late evening, on his way to work at his TV sales and repair shop he passes the tiny one block park in the middle of town and sees something hanging from the only lamp post, something big, almost like a body. Of course it must be something else, probably an ad of some sort or a joke. Not able to discern exactly what it...
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The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to propagate themselves and were slowly strangling Terran planets. How did they do that? What was their secret? The answer was baffling and the best human minds could only conclude that their ships and mines were somehow alive. So, the next desperate step was to ask "If they are using organic ships, why can't we...
46) Sci-Fi Asteroids - 8 Science Fiction Short Stories by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl
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Eight science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
50) Sci-Fi Robots - 10 Science Fiction Short Stories by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverbe
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Some of the earliest science fiction stories featuring robots from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1950s and 60s.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #9 Rick Deckard is under arrest! Thanks to the notorious Nexus-6 android Luba Luft, Deckard finds himself in his biggest predicament yet. Is Deckard a human - or an android? Everything is not as it seems in this exciting issue of the Philip K. Dick masterwork that inspired Blade Runner.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #2 THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FILM BLADE RUNNER COMES TO BOOM with backmatter by Warren Ellis! Worldwide best-selling sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and served as the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER. BOOM! Studios is honored to present the complete novel transplanted into the comic book medium, mixing...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #1 THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FILM BLADE RUNNER COMES TO BOOM with backmatter by Warren Ellis! Worldwide best-selling sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and served as the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER. BOOM! Studios is honored to present the complete novel transplanted into the comic book medium, mixing...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #4 Tony Parker Thanks to the Rosen Corporation and its invention, the Nexus-6 android brain, humanity's artificial counterparts are now harder to detect than ever. But bounty hunter Rick Deckard has a special weapon in his arsenal - the empathy test. Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, the basis for the film Blade Runner, comes to comics in an innovative full-text, illustrated adaptation with backmatter by...
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The Eisner-nominated series from the book that inspired the movie BLADE RUNNER continues as Rick Deckard makes a decision that may be the biggest mistake of his life. Or it may also be the most enlightening experience of his life. There are only three renegade Nexus-6 androids left and you wont believe what happens next in Philip K. Dicks sci-fi masterpiece!
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #10 Is Rick Deckard an android? The saga that inspired Blade Runner continues in this shocking tenth issue of the Philip K. Dick sci-fi epic. Is Deckard's hunt for the rogue Nexus-6 androids at an end? Is Deckard himself one of those androids? Questions are raised and answers are given in the most exciting issue of DADOES yet!
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THE PREQUEL TO ONE OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION NOVELS EVER PUBLISHED! Volume 2 of John W. Campbell Award-nominee Chris Roberson's prequel to John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winner Philip K. Dick's DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?. Who hunted androids before Rick Deckard? Taking place immediately after World War Terminus ends, the problems with artificial life -- androids - become apparent. The government decides they must become targets, hunted...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #8 Adapting the cult classic science-fiction novel that inspired Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner! Philip K. Dick's masterwork ramps up as Rick Deckard stalks the elusive Nexus-6 android Luba Luft. Finding himself in an old opera house, Deckard encounters some serious trouble. The ongoing hunt won't be over until the fat lady sings!
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The penultimate issue of the Eisner award-nominated sci-fi epic that inspired Blade Runner can't be missed! Only in these pages will you find out the fate of Rick Deckard and the rogue Nexus-6 androids. Who will win: man or machine? Only one more issue of the critically aclaimed blockbuster maxi-series that brought Philip K. Dick to the world of comics!
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This is it...the grand finale of the Eisner Award-nominated sci-fi epic that brought Philip K. Dick to comics! Don't miss the final chapter of the legendary novel that inspired Blade Runner as Rick Deckard comes to term with his decisions and searches for the difference between man and machine. LAST ISSUE FINALE!