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A Maze of DeathA Maze of Death
Galactic Pot HealerGalactic Pot Healer
UbikUbik
Now Wait For Last YearNow Wait For Last Year
The Zap GunThe Zap Gun


Paperback - Gollancz (2005)
A Maze of Death
When fourteen people arrive to colonize the otherwise uninhabited planet of Delmark-O, they quickly discover that their bizarre new world is more dangerous - and much, much stranger - than they could ever have imagined. The colonists have nothing in common and no idea why they’ve been sent there. All they know is that there’s no way to leave and, one by one, they are being killed …
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‘An amazing list - genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF’ Iain M. Banks
'The most consistently brillian SF writer in the world, ringing changes the rest of us have never dreamed of' John Brunner
‘Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise’ Michael Moorcock
‘An elusive and incomparable artist’ Ursula K. Le Guin
‘In all his work he was astonishingly intimate, self exposed, and very dangerous. He was the funniest SF writer of his time, and perhaps the most terrifying. His dreads were our own, spoken as we could not have spoken them’ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction


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Paperback - Gollancz (2005)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Galactic Pot Healer
Joe Fernwright is a pot-healer, a repairer of ceramics, in a drably utilitarian future where such skills have little value. But the Glimmung is offering Joe a way out of his isolated, meaningless life. It wants him to travel to Plowman’s Planet to work on a project there with dozens of other odd creatures. And it may not be a bad idea to do what the Glimmung wants. After all, it is prepared to pay well, it could be divine and, like so many other gods, it has a very bad temper ...
Galactic Pot-Healer blends quixotic adventure and deliciously paranoid theology in a uniquely imaginative and metaphysical quest.
'A gem, a finely crafted, ironic, and delightfully ludicrous parable. If G K Chesterton had written SF it would have read like this' Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions
`Dick was one of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced . . . his best novels constitute as significant a body of work as that of any writer in this country in the last thirty years’ Steve Erickson, L.A. Weekly
`Philip K. Dick became my favourite author ... [his] work had a yearning and homely undertow, a self-doubting quality, that made him infinitely richer and more disturbing’ Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker
`Dick amused, enthralled and astounded his readers . . There’s no pomposity in Dick’s work, no falseness. When the moment comes, Dick can pull out all the stops and sound the big resonating chords, though calm, ironic understatement is his forte’ Brian W. Aldiss


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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Ubik
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out. If it hasn't already.
'The terror and the humour are fused. It is this rare quality which marks Dick out' Brain W.Aldiss
'Creates a world irradiated by schizophrenic perceptions, and moves with frightening intensity - and hilarity - to an elegant transcendental finale' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
'Dick's plastic realities tell us more than we'll ever want to know about the inside of our heads and the view looking out. In his tortured topographies of worlds never made, we see mindscapes that we ourselves, in our madder moments, have glimpsed and thought real. Dick travelled out there on our behalf. It is our duty to read the reports he sent home.' James Lovegrove
'Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise' Michael Moorcock
'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' Sunday Times
'Dick's abundant storytelling gifts and the need to express his inner struggles combined to produce some of the most groundbreaking novels and ideas to emerge from SF in the fifties and sixties' Waterstone's Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
'In all his work he was astonishingly intimate, self exposed, and very dangerous. He was the funniest sf writer of his time, and perhaps the most terrifying. His dreads were our own, spoken as we could not have spoken them' Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction


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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Now Wait For Last Year
First, Gino Molinari was assassinated by a political rival. Then he died of a heart attack. But now he is back, younger and more vigorous than ever, giving Earth new hope of survival in the war against the alien reegs. But is this really Molinari, or a robant masquerading as Earth’s overlord? Whatever the truth, only he can save the Solar System - if he can stay alive long enough, or at least not stay dead for too long
‘He was the funniest SF writer of his time, and perhaps the most terrifying’ Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction


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Paperback - Gollancz (2006)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk The Zap Gun
After the Plowshare Protocols way back in 2002, Lars Powderdry, Wes-bloc’s brilliant weapons fashion designer has been inventing elaborate devices that only seem to be massively lethal. And the deception is taking a heavy toll of his personal life. But when the alien satellites appear in the sky and it’s clear that they aren’t friendly, the world suddenly needs military might like never before. So, Wes-bloc and Peep-East temporarily patch up their differences and Lars meets up with Lilo Popchev, his eastern counterpart, in the hope that they can create a weapon to save the world. It’s a difficult task made even trickier by Lars falling in love with Lilo even though he knows she’s trying to kill him ...
‘The foremost science fiction writer of our time’ Thomas M. Disch
‘Dick was SF’s greatest extrapolator of modern angst’ New York Daily News
‘A hybrid of Dickens and Dostoevsky, possessed of the comic delights and tragic depths of both ... Dick amused, enthralled and astounded his readers’ Brian W. Aldiss


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