One of the better-written accounts of Hollywood, and in particular the seamier aspects of the B-movie industry, where desperation leads to sexual adventure.

"A very impressive must-read for serious PKD readers...I literally could not put this book down. Reading the interview, you get the uncanny sensation that you're sitting in the room rapping with PKD himself." --Science Fiction Chronicle. This exceptional anthology includes over eight hours of interviews with noted science fiction author Philip K. Dick, including the most complete and personal account of his March, 1974, "mystical experiences," plus numerous supplementary essays, including ...

The 1950s were a golden age of science fiction, a decade when writers imagined alien worlds, strange technologies, and futures both thrilling and terrifying. In this collection of 22 classic short stories, you’ll encounter some of the era’s most creative minds, including five unforgettable tales by Philip K. Dick.Step into worlds where reality itself can’t be trusted. In The Hanging Stranger, an ordinary man discovers something impossible hanging from a lamppost—and no one...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 121 thru 140 - Twenty Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sSouvenir by Philip K. DickMessage From Mars by Clifford D. SimakDuel on Syrtis by Poul AndersonThe Stainless Steel Rat by Harry HarrisonBeside Still Waters by Robert SheckleyUpon The Dull Earth by Philip K. DickThe Star Mouse by Fredric BrownHero From Yesterday by Robert SilverbergThe Call From Beyond...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories: More Than 27 Hours of Classic Science Fiction is an extraordinary collection of timeless adventures from the Golden Age of science fiction. Featuring fifty unforgettable stories by many of the genre’s greatest authors, this epic audiobook delivers more than 27 hours of imagination, exploration, mystery, and wonder.Inside you’ll discover classic tales by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Damon Knight, Winston Marks, Mack Reynolds...

Reality is never as stable as it appears—and in the worlds of Philip K. Dick, one wrong turn can reveal that everything you believed was an illusion.The Worlds of Philip K. Dick brings together sixteen classic stories from one of science fiction’s most imaginative and influential authors. Written during the early years of his career, these tales already display the ideas that would define his work: uncertain identities, artificial realities, alien encounters, autho...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 76 thru 80 - Five Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60sThe Golden Man by Philip K. Dick - The powers of earth had finally exterminated the last of the horrible tribes of mutant freaks spawned by atomic war. Menace to homo sapien supremacy was about ended-but not quite. For out of the countryside came a great golden, godlike youth whose extraordinary mutant powers, combining the world's oldest and newest methods of survival, promis...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 2: More Than 29 Hours of Classic Science Fiction is another extraordinary collection of timeless adventures from the Golden Age of science fiction. Featuring fifty unforgettable stories by many of the genre’s greatest authors, this epic audiobook delivers more than 29 hours of exploration, suspense, imagination, and unforgettable ideas.Inside you’ll discover classic tales by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Murray...

Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1950sThe Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick -Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong he tried to correct it. Then one day he saw it hanging in the town square.The Water Eater by Winston Marks -Most experiments were dropped because they failed, some because they worked too well!Death Star by James McKimmy Jr. -

Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick - Something went wrong... and Ed Fletcher got mixed up in the biggest thing in his lifeIt was bright morning. The sun shone down on the damp lawns and sidewalks, reflecting off the sparkling parked cars.The clerk came walking hurriedly, leafing through his instructions, flipping pages and frowning. He stopped in front of the small green stucco house for a moment, and then turned up the walk, entering the back yard....

Lost Sci-Fi Books 56 thru 60 delivers five unforgettable journeys from the golden age of science fiction, where ordinary people are thrust into extraordinary situations and every page opens a door to the impossible.Philip K. Dick’s Prominent Author begins with a revolutionary transportation system that lets commuters cross vast distances in seconds. But when one traveler encounters mysterious strangers along the route, a routine trip becomes a chil...

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