Russell's ebook Library
Beyond the Door
Philip K. Dick
Beyond The Door... Did you ever what would happen if an inanimate figure not only came to life, but hated you as well?
Clans of the Alphane Moon
Philip K. Dick
When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they’ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do th...
Counter-Clock World
Philip K. Dick
In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick’s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase – a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signi...
The Crack in Space
Philip K. Dick
A repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world.Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy mil...
The Crystal Crypt
Philip K. Dick
The Crystal Crypt... Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl.
Deus Irae
Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny
In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him th...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction a...
Dr. Futurity
Philip K. Dick
Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives.But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an incredibly advanced civi...
Dr Bloodmoney
Philip K. Dick
Seven years after the day of the bombs, Point Reyes was luckier than most places. Its people were reasonably normal - except for the girl with her twin brother growing inside her, and talking to her.Their barter economy was working. Their resident ge...
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Philip K. Dick
On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was - a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his ex...
Galactic Pot-Healer
Philip K. Dick
What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign?Combining quixotic adve...
The Game-Players of Titan
Philip K. Dick
In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction, Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical. Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He's also lost his wife, but he'll get a new one as...
The Gun
Philip K. Dick
The Captain peered into the eyepiece of the telescope. He adjusted the focus quickly. "It was an atomic fission we saw, all right," he said presently. He sighed and pushed the eyepiece away. "Any of you who wants to look may do so. But it's not a pre...
In Milton Lumky Territory
Philip K. Dick
In The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson states that "In Milton Lumky Territory. . . is probably the best of Dick's realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist," and calls it a "bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism."...
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, t...
The Man Who Japed
Philip K. Dick
The Man Who Japed is Dick's mesmerizing and terrifying tale of a society so eager for order that it will sacrifice anything, including its freedom.Newer York is a post-holocaust city governed by the laws of an oppressively rigid morality. Highly mobi...
Martian Time-Slip
Philip K. Dick
One of the stand-out novels in Philip K. Dick's career of wildly reality-bending SF, Martian Time- Slip convinces by placing its insanities in a quiet, even domestic context.Here colonised Mars has a flavour of grubby, struggling 1950s suburbia, wher...
A Maze of Death
Philip K. Dick
Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that ev...
Now Wait for Last Year
Philip K. Dick
Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time -- and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent...
Our Friends From Frolix 8
Philip K. Dick
For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely concerned with humanity’s most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. In Our Friends From Frolix 8, he clashes private dreams against public battles i...
The Penultimate Truth
Philip K. Dick
THE LONGEST LIEWorld War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe.For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in ...
Radio Free Albemuth
Philip K. Dick
The praise is fantastic! Radio Free Albemuth is more than a fascinating introduction (and key) to Dick's classic Valis trilogy. It also stands on its own as a complete - and completely unforgettable - work representing Dick at his best - eerie, eleva...
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug ab...
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
Collected here are twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers.Beyond Lies the WubRoogPaycheckSecond VarietyImposterThe King of the ElvesAdjustm...
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