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Philip K. Dick - Page 3

In Milton Lumky Territory Valis A Scanner Darkly Confessions of a Crap Artist Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said

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Paperback - Gollancz (2005)

In Milton Lumky Territory
Bruce Stevens is a successful young buyer for the CBB discount house in Reno and he cruises around the Western States in his ‘55 Mercury checking out likely deals. But when he meets Susan Faine, the part-owner of an ailing typewriter store in Boise, Idaho, a more attractive position comes his way.
Susan is ten years older than Bruce and recently divorced. They’ve also met before, when she was his teacher in fifth grade. But she wants someone to manage the store and he’s keen to try. Then one thing leads to another and within days they are married. Milton Lumky, the enigmatic paper salesman, is filled with foreboding ...
In Milton Lumky Territory is a haunting novel of American small-town life in the 1950s, one of the fine mainstream works from Philip K. Dick, now universally recognised as one of the most compelling and sensitive chroniclers of life and love of the period.
'The writing's marvellous control of implication comes close to matching even Patricia Highsmith at her menacing best' Observer
`One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Philip K. Dick made most of the European avantgarde seem navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac’ The Sunday Times
`No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence. He has stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations’ Brian W. Aldiss

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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2001)

Valis
It began with a blinding light. A divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System). And with that, the fabric of reality was torn apart and laid bare so that anything seemed possible but nothing seemed quite right.
It was madness, pure and simple. But what if it were true?
'It is about madness, pain, deception, death, obsessive delusory states of mind, cruelty, solitude, imprisonment, and it is a joy to read' Washington Post
‘For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K.Dick got there first’ Terry Gilliam

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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (1999)

A Scanner Darkly
Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorientation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user...
'Explores the implications of drug-taking with an almost hallucinated vehemence' the Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction

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Paperback - Gollancz (2005)

Confessions of a Crap Artist
Jack Isidore is a chronicler and collector of crackpot ideas and worthless objects. He believes, among other things, that sunlight has weight and that a civilisation exists inside the world. He is a man so ill-equipped for real life that his sister and her husband, who thinks of Jack as a crap artist, have to take him in. But when Jack’s apparently innocent but ruthless gaze is turned on them, Fay and Charley Hume are seen to be in thrall to obsessions too. Obsessions that, thanks to Jack’s observations, can only end in tragedy …
'What Raymond Chandler did for the neon-lit Los Angeles of the forties, [Philip K. Dick] did for the Bay Area teetering on the brink of the sixties' Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions
‘A funny, horribly accurate portrait of life in California in the 1950’s’ Rolling Stone
‘It’s beginning to look as thought greatness has been thrust on Philip K. Dick… [He] has chosen to handle material too nutty to accept, too admonitory to forget, too haunting to abandon’ Washington Post
‘Dick [was] many authors: a poor man’s Pynchon, an oracular post modern, a rich product of the counter-culture’ Village Voice
‘Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation. [He is] our own homegrown Borges’ Ursula K. Le Guin

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Paperback - Gollancz (2007)

Paperback Gollancz Millenium (2001)

Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said
Jason Taverner is a Six, the product of top secret government experiments forty years earlier which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people. He is also a TV star, the prime-time idol of millions . . . until, inexplicably, all record of him disappears from the data banks. Now he is a man with no identity, in a police state where everybody’s records are monitored. Can he ever be rich and famous again . . . if, indeed, those memories are not illusions.
‘Dick was many authors: a poor man’s Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a rich product of the changing counter culture’ The Village Voice
‘For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first’ Terry Gilliam
‘No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence. He has stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations’ Brian Aldiss
‘One of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced’ L.A. Weekly

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