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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

About the Author

British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2007)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The novel that became Blade Runner from the author of Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly
War has left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalks the runaway androids who are his prey. When he isn’t ‘retiring’ them, he dreams of owning the ultimate status symbol - a live animal. Then Rick gets his big assignment: to track down six Nexus - 6 targets, for a huge reward. But life is never that straightforward and Rick’s quickly turns into a kaleidoscopic nightmare of subterfuge and deceit.
‘A marvellous and complex book, simply written but leaving all kinds of resonance in the mind’ Brian W Aldiss

British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2007)

Human Is?
Philip K Dick’s ironic, quirky and entertainingly idiosyncratic short fiction is brilliantly inventive and marvelously varied. The range of his ideas is stunning but his unfailing sympathy for often far from heroic, ordinary people trapped in difficult circumstances marks him out as a writer of compassion and humour as well. This exhilarating collection brings together some of the very best work of the twentieth-century’s greatest writer of science fiction.
Philip K Dick died in 1982 but his edgy, darkly comic vision is more powerful, disturbing and relevant now than ever.
Drawn from the five volumes of his complete short stories, this volume represents the very cream of Philip K. Dick's output. It serves both as a celebration of his work, in the 25th year since his death, and as the ideal introduction to his unique take on the world for new readers. As our culture becomes ever more fluid, as fact is fictionalised, as documentary gives way to reality-TV, as our identities are digitised, as globalism runs wild, as drugs become ever more ubiquitous the world is finally catching up with even the most bizarre of Philip K. Dick's imaginings. 25 years after his death we are living in Philip K. Dick's world, this new authoratitive collection of his best short fiction shows us why.
‘One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac’ The Sunday Times

British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2003)

Solar Lottery
From the author of Blade Runner and Minority Report
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 came the game - the assassination game - which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to evade his chosen killer? Which made for fascinating and exciting viewing, compelling enough to distract the public’s attention while the Big Five industrial complexes ran the world. Then, in 2203, with the choice of a member of a maverick cult as Quizmaster, the system developed a little hitch...
Solar Lottery was Philip K. Dick’s first published novel, brilliant and idiosyncratic, powerful and affecting.
'The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world' John Brunner
`An elusive and incomparable artist’ Ursula K. Le Guin
`He was brilliantly inventive, gaining access to imaginative realms which no other writer of SF had reached’ The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction
`Dick amused, enthralled and astounded his readers .. . There’s no pomposity in Dick’s work, no falseness. When the moment comes, Dick can pull all the stops out and sound the big resonating chords, though calm, ironic understatement is his forte’ Brian W. Aldiss

First British Edition Gollancz (2002)

Minority Report
Short Story Collection including Minority Report, Philip K. Dick’s brilliantly original vision of the future, now the basis of Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster, starring Tom Cruise as Anderton.In The Future, Crime Can Be Prevented
The Department of Precrime has cut major crime by almost 100%. How? Simple: it is possible to look into the future, and then arrest potential criminals, sentence them and punish them, before they actually commit the crime. Nobody doubts the efficiency and fairness of the system, until Precrime Commissioner John Anderton finds himself accused. According to the department, at some point in the next seven days he will commit murder.
In most cases, the precrime verdict is unanimous. In this case there was a difference of opinion among the people who foresee the future. Anderton knows the majority decision. If he is to save himself, he must find the minority report. And if he is to remain free, he must go on the run, as a convicted murderer.

Paperback - Gollancz (2005)

Mary and the Giant
Mary Anne Reynolds is a young and vulnerable woman, determined to make her own unique way in the world, but Pacific Park, California, in the early 1950s, with its hidebound attitude to sexual mores and its bigoted view on race, does not offer her too many opportunities or allow her much room to manoeuvre.
Philip K. Dick’s mainstream novels are now recognised as being among his finest, and Mary and the Giant is one of the very best of those works. Small-town California is powerfully and subtly drawn and Mary Anne Reynolds is one of the most convincing and sympathetic characters Dick ever created.
'An elusive and incomparable artist' Ursula K Le Guin
‘It is becoming increasingly clear that Dick is one of the most compelling chroniclers of life and love in 1950s California that we have’ Publishers Weekly
‘There are tough, vivid portrayals throughout… The narrative voice is clear and sensitive…’New York Times Book Review
‘Graceful, wry, vulnerable, pessimistic and wise’ The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction
‘A brilliant portrayal of the 1950s’ David G. Hartwell
`Dick amused, enthralled and astounded his readers’ Brian W. Aldiss

About The Author
Philip K. Dick was born in the USA in 1928. His twin Sister Jan, died in infancy. He starred his writing career publishing short stories in magazines. The first of these was Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. While publishing SF prolifically during the fifties, Dick also wrote a series of mainstream novels, only one of which, Confessions of a Crap Artist, achieved publication during his lifetime. These included titles such as Mary and the Giant and In Milton Lumky Territory. During the 1960s Dick produced an extraordinary succession of novels, including The Man in the High Castle, which won a Hugo award, Martian Time-slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?and UBIK. In the 1970s, Dick started to concern himself more directly with metaphysical and theological issues, experiencing a moment of revelation _ or breakdown _ March 1974 which became the basis for much of his subsequent writing, in particular Valis, as he strove to make sense of what had happened. He died in 1982, a few weeks before the film Blade Runner opened and introduced his vision to a wider audience.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Gollancz Pbk, 2007)

Human Is? (Gollancz Pbk, 2007)

Solar Lottery (Gollancz Pbk, 2003)

Minority Report Short Stories (Gollancz, 2002)

Mary and the Giant ( 1987) Gollancz Pbk Jun 05

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale Short Stories ( 1987) Gollancz Millenium Pbk May 00

Minority Report Short Stories ( 1987) Gollancz Millenium Pbk May 00

Second Variety Short Stories ( 1987) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Aug 99

The Father-Thing Short Stories ( 1987) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Aug 99

Beyond Lies the Wub Short Stories ( 1987) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Aug 99

In Milton Lumky Territory ( 1985) Gollancz Pbk Jun 05

Valis ( 1981) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Jul 01

A Scanner Darkly ( 1977) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Oct 99

Confessions of a Crap Artist ( 1975) Gollancz Pbk Nov 05

Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said ( 1974) Gollancz Pbk Mar 07

A Maze of Death ( 1970) Gollancz Pbk Dec 05

Galactic Pot Healer ( 1969) Gollancz Pbk Dec 05

Ubik ( 1969) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Feb 00

Now Wait For Last Year ( 1966) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Dec 00

The Zap Gun ( 1965) Gollancz Pbk Jun 06

Dr Bloodmoney ( 1965) Gollancz Pbk Mar 07

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ( 1964) Gollancz Pbk Mar 07

Martian Time-Slip (Gollancz Millenium Pbk, 1964)

Time out of Joint ( 1959) Gollancz Pbk Sep 03

The Cosmic Puppets ( 1957) Gollancz Pbk Jan 06

The World Jones Made ( 1956) Gollancz Pbk Oct 03

Cantata-140 Gollancz Pbk Mar 03

Three Early Novels Gollancz Millenium Pbk Dec 00