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It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment: find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

In this dystopian game-changer from 1968, visionary Philip K. Dick saw our AI anxieties coming from a mile away. Before personal computers were even a thing, his mind-bending novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? threw us into a world where humans and machines play an unsettling game of "spot the difference." As real-world astronauts prepped for moonshots, Dick was busy crafting a gritty future that would make us question everything about consciousness and humanity. Buckle up for the sci-fi classic that didn't just predict our robot reality—it completely nailed our complicated feelings ...

In this dystopian game-changer from 1968, visionary Philip K. Dick saw our AI anxieties coming from a mile away. Before personal computers were even a thing, his mind-bending novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? threw us into a world where humans and machines play an unsettling game of "spot the difference." As real-world astronauts prepped for moonshots, Dick was busy crafting a gritty future that would make us question everything about consciousness and humanity. Buckle up for the sci-fi classic that didn't just predict our robot reality—it completely nailed our complicated feelings ...

In this dystopian game-changer from 1968, visionary Philip K. Dick saw our AI anxieties coming from a mile away. Before personal computers were even a thing, his mind-bending novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? threw us into a world where humans and machines play an unsettling game of "spot the difference." As real-world astronauts prepped for moonshots, Dick was busy crafting a gritty future that would make us question everything about consciousness and humanity. Buckle up for the sci-fi classic that didn't just predict our robot reality—it completely nailed our complicated feelings ...

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than 100 short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects 10 of the best. In "Autofac," Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. "Exhibit Piece" and "The Commuter" feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists.

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

In this dystopian game-changer from 1968, visionary Philip K. Dick saw our AI anxieties coming from a mile away. Before personal computers were even a thing, his mind-bending novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? threw us into a world where humans and machines play an unsettling game of "spot the difference." As real-world astronauts prepped for moonshots, Dick was busy crafting a gritty future that would make us question everything about consciousness and humanity. Buckle up for the sci-fi classic that didn't just predict our robot reality—it completely nailed our complicated feelings ...

Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society.

In this dystopian game-changer from 1968, visionary Philip K. Dick saw our AI anxieties coming from a mile away. Before personal computers were even a thing, his mind-bending novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? threw us into a world where humans and machines play an unsettling game of "spot the difference." As real-world astronauts prepped for moonshots, Dick was busy crafting a gritty future that would make us question everything about consciousness and humanity. Buckle up for the sci-fi classic that didn't just predict our robot reality—it completely nailed our complicated feelings ...

Los Angeles of 2039 is a baffling and bifurcated place. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities, and became essentially a third world country within the borders of the city. Navigating the boundaries between DZ and LA proper is a tricky task, and there's no one better suited than eccentric private investigator Erasmus Keane. When a valuable genetically altered sheep mysteriously goes missing from Esper Corporation's labs, Keane is the one they call. But while the erratic Keane and his more grounded partner, Blake ...

Sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman Don Quixote, fed by his own delusional fantasies, takes to the road in search of chivalrous adventures. But his quest leads to more trouble than triumph. At once humorous, romantic, and sad, Don Quixote is a literary landmark. This fresh edition, by award-winning translator Edith Grossman, brings the tale to life as never before.

In this dystopian game-changer from 1968, visionary Philip K. Dick saw our AI anxieties coming from a mile away. Before personal computers were even a thing, his mind-bending novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? threw us into a world where humans and machines play an unsettling game of "spot the difference." As real-world astronauts prepped for moonshots, Dick was busy crafting a gritty future that would make us question everything about consciousness and humanity. Buckle up for the sci-fi classic that didn't just predict our robot reality—it completely nailed our complicated feelings ...

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

In this dystopian game-changer from 1968, visionary Philip K. Dick saw our AI anxieties coming from a mile away. Before personal computers were even a thing, his mind-bending novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? threw us into a world where humans and machines play an unsettling game of "spot the difference." As real-world astronauts prepped for moonshots, Dick was busy crafting a gritty future that would make us question everything about consciousness and humanity. Buckle up for the sci-fi classic that didn't just predict our robot reality—it completely nailed our complicated feelings ...

Eine visionäre Sci-Fi-Perle aus 1968, in der Philip K. Dick unsere KI-Ängste schon kommen sah, als Computer noch zimmerfüllende Rechenmonster waren. In Träumen Androiden von elektrischen Schafen? (später als Blade Runner verfilmt) tauchen wir ein in eine Zukunft, in der sich Mensch und Maschine zum Verwechseln ähnlich sind. Während die Apollo-Astronauten zum Mond düsten, erschuf Dick eine düstere Welt, die uns bis heute den Kopf verdreht: Was macht uns eigentlich menschlich? Wo endet Bewusstsein, wo beginnt Programmierung? Ein prophetischer Roman, der im Zeitalter von ChatGPT und Co. ...

In this dystopian game-changer from 1968, visionary Philip K. Dick saw our AI anxieties coming from a mile away. Before personal computers were even a thing, his mind-bending novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? threw us into a world where humans and machines play an unsettling game of "spot the difference." As real-world astronauts prepped for moonshots, Dick was busy crafting a gritty future that would make us question everything about consciousness and humanity. Buckle up for the sci-fi classic that didn't just predict our robot reality—it completely nailed our complicated feelings ...

Eine visionäre Sci-Fi-Perle aus 1968, in der Philip K. Dick unsere KI-Ängste schon kommen sah, als Computer noch zimmerfüllende Rechenmonster waren. In Träumen Androiden von elektrischen Schafen? (später als Blade Runner verfilmt) tauchen wir ein in eine Zukunft, in der sich Mensch und Maschine zum Verwechseln ähnlich sind. Während die Apollo-Astronauten zum Mond düsten, erschuf Dick eine düstere Welt, die uns bis heute den Kopf verdreht: Was macht uns eigentlich menschlich? Wo endet Bewusstsein, wo beginnt Programmierung? Ein prophetischer Roman, der im Zeitalter von ChatGPT und Co. ...

Eine visionäre Sci-Fi-Perle aus 1968, in der Philip K. Dick unsere KI-Ängste schon kommen sah, als Computer noch zimmerfüllende Rechenmonster waren. In Träumen Androiden von elektrischen Schafen? (später als Blade Runner verfilmt) tauchen wir ein in eine Zukunft, in der sich Mensch und Maschine zum Verwechseln ähnlich sind. Während die Apollo-Astronauten zum Mond düsten, erschuf Dick eine düstere Welt, die uns bis heute den Kopf verdreht: Was macht uns eigentlich menschlich? Wo endet Bewusstsein, wo beginnt Programmierung? Ein prophetischer Roman, der im Zeitalter von ChatGPT und Co. ...

In this dystopian game-changer from 1968, visionary Philip K. Dick saw our AI anxieties coming from a mile away. Before personal computers were even a thing, his mind-bending novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? threw us into a world where humans and machines play an unsettling game of "spot the difference." As real-world astronauts prepped for moonshots, Dick was busy crafting a gritty future that would make us question everything about consciousness and humanity. Buckle up for the sci-fi classic that didn't just predict our robot reality—it completely nailed our complicated feelings ...