Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780722129586
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Science fiction-noveller.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486852148
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Philip K. Dick ponders the very nature of humanity in this anthology of five gripping short stories and novellas. Includes "The Defenders," "Foster, You're Dead," "Piper in the Woods," "Second Variety," and "The Variable Man."

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Science fiction-noveller.

Author: Ron D'Alena
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546576600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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A CANNON BOOKS Science Fiction Collection *The Variable Man And Other Stories* Eleven Authors. Fourteen Old School Stories. Jam-packed with robots, aliens, energy beams, vidscreens, interstellar war, Armageddon, other worlds, societal/environmental degradation, overpopulation and the ugly hand of big business . . . as well as the mundane of daily life. So kick back, suspend your concept of reality and enjoy. The Variable Man And Other Stories (320 pages): Jesse Franklin Bone (Assassin) Arthur C. Clarke (The Forgotten Enemy) Philip K. Dick (Second Variety, The Variable Man) Randall Garrett (The Highest Treason) Harry Harrison (Arm of the Law, The Repairman) Clifford D. Simak & Carl R. Jacobi (The Street That Wasn't There) Fletcher Pratt & Laurence Manning (City of the Living Dead) Frederik Pohl (The Tunnel Under the World, The Hated, Pythias) Kurt Vonnegut (2BR02B, The Big Trip up Yonder)

Author: Philip K Dick
Publisher: Start Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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He fixed things-clocks refrigerators vid-senders and destinies. But he had no business in the future where the calculators could not handle him. He was Earth's only hope-and its sure failure! A classic tale of intrigue and time travel.Philip K. Dick was one of science fiction's most influential author. He was a Hugo Award winner. More than a dozen of his novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen including Blade Runner The Minority Report Total Recall The Adjustment Bureau A Scanner Darkly Screamers and The Man in the High Castle.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781534754201
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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The Terran system is growing and expanding all the time. But an old and corrupt Centaurian Empire is holding Terra down, as it encircles the Terran system and will not let the humans grow out of their current empire. For this reason Terra is at war with Proxima Centauri and is trying to find a way of breaking free from the Centaurian's hold upon them. In the war that results, Terra is continually coming up with new weapons to try and break the Centaurian defenses, but Proxima Centauri is also continually updating its defenses. Using spies and other such tactics, both parties find out about each other's advances, and no actual fighting ever occurs because both sides are too busy trying to beat each other with new technological developments. Terra even calculates their chances to win a war versus Centauri and updates these calculations with each new development, making their decision about a war rely on this calculation. Eventually Terra comes up with a concept for a bomb, called Icarus, that Proxima can not defend against because it travels at faster than light speeds, making use of the buildup of mass at near light speeds as a destructive agent when it slows down to below light speed. Then the odds start to side with Terra, and Terra prepares to fight with this new-found technology. There are two problems 1) is that Icarus does not yet work which prevents Terra from using it against Proxima Centuari and 2) that the existence of Cole on Terra is an "unknown variable" that confuses the war win probability computer. Hence the book title "The Variable Man."

Author: Lord Rc
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430324376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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A study of the novels and short stories of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)with presentation of a literary chronology of his career.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: 谷月社
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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SECOND VARIETY 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! The Russian soldier made his way nervously up the ragged side of the hill, holding his gun ready. He glanced around him, licking his dry lips, his face set. From time to time he reached up a gloved hand and wiped perspiration from his neck, pushing down his coat collar. Eric turned to Corporal Leone. “Want him? Or can I have him?” He adjusted the view sight so the Russian’s features squarely filled the glass, the lines cutting across his hard, somber features. Leone considered. The Russian was close, moving rapidly, almost running. “Don’t fire. Wait.” Leone tensed. “I don’t think we’re needed.” The Russian increased his pace, kicking ash and piles of debris out of his way. He reached the top of the hill and stopped, panting, staring around him. The sky was overcast, drifting clouds of gray particles. Bare trunks of trees jutted up occasionally; the ground was level and bare, rubble-strewn, with the ruins of buildings standing out here and there like yellowing skulls. The Russian was uneasy. He knew something was wrong. He started down the hill. Now he was only a few paces from the bunker. Eric was getting fidgety. He played with his pistol, glancing at Leone. “Don’t worry,” Leone said. “He won’t get here. They’ll take care of him.” “Are you sure? He’s got damn far.” “They hang around close to the bunker. He’s getting into the bad part. Get set!” The Russian began to hurry, sliding down the hill, his boots sinking into the heaps of gray ash, trying to keep his gun up. He stopped for a moment, lifting his fieldglasses to his face. “He’s looking right at us,” Eric said.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Prime Books
ISBN: 9780809556359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Edited and selected by noted scholar Gregg Rickman, "The Early Work of Philip K. Dick, Volume Two, encompasses stories from the early years of Philip K. Dick. With extensive story notes and introductions by Rickman, "The Early Work of Philip K. Dick" promises an early peek into the many worlds created by one of the acclaimed masters of science fiction and fantasy.

Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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