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The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to propagate themselves and were slowly strangling Terran planets. How did they do that? What was their secret? The answer was baffling and the best human minds could only conclude that their ships and mines were somehow alive. So, the next desperate step was to ask "If they are using organic ships, why can't we do the same?"

Willianson's world, a culture that seemed a hideous nightmare to men who know nothing of beauty, must be destroyed. Philip Dick's characters have an exciting way of letting their logically motivated self-interest lead them straight down the flaming road to ruin. We suspect that it is this distinctly individual approach which has made him one of the most admired and widely read of science fiction writers of the past few years.

Step aboard a deep-space transport and experience one of Philip K. Dick’s earliest and most thought-provoking sci-fi tales. Beyond Lies the Wub explores the nature of intelligence, communication, and survival when a crew encounters a mysterious, telepathic creature with unsettling wisdom. Blending humor, suspense, and existential questions, this timeless short story will leave you questioning reality itself.

Laurie, a city girl, marries and moves with her husband to Vermont and has an encounter with an apple tree, the only living tree in a dying orchard. The tree is determined to survive - somehow.

Con una galleria di personaggi magnificamente dipinti, Dick ci porta nella California della fine degli anni Cinquanta, dove si muovono quattro grandi protagonisti: Fay Hume, una donna bella, aggressiva e materialista; il marito Charles, un self-made man che possiede una casa di lusso e una proprietà di dieci acri, totalmente incapace di rapportarsi con la moglie; Nathan Anteil, un giovane e smarrito intellettuale; infine il fratello di Fay, Jack Isidore, l'artista del titolo, il personaggio più affascinante del romanzo.

A poke at idioms, sci-fi style. If we read everything literally, we'd go mad.

The Defenders is a 1953 science fiction novel by American master of the genre Philip K. Dick, and the basis for Dick's 1964 novel "The Penultimate Truth". (It is one of several of his stories to be expanded into a novel)... Eight years ago a nuclear war began between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. American survivors evacuated to gigantic bunkers miles under ground. Sophisticated, radioactivity-immune robots called "leadys" continue fighting the war on the devastated surface.

Tony and the Beetles takes place far in the future when Earth's enormous colonial empire is well established but the question is, how long can it last? Ten-year-old Tony grows up fast when history catches up with the human race. A sobering look at human history - and our probable future.

Anno 2203: il dominio dell'universo è assegnato seguendo le leggi casuali di un complesso gioco che si svolge sotto la supervisione del Quizmaster Verrick. Quando Ted Benteley, un tecnico di ricerca che ha appena perduto il lavoro, firma un contratto con Leo Cartwright, non immagina che il suo nuovo datore di lavoro sta per diventare il nuovo Quizmaster.

A child goes into the garage and finds his father talking to himself. No, really talking to himself, as in two identical people. The boy; however, can sense the "thing" from his father. And then the thing comes to the dinner table...

When Ed Loyce notices something disturbingly out of place in his small town, he's plunged into a nightmare where no one else seems to care. Is he losing his mind, or has the world itself gone mad?

Conger, a skilled hunter, is being sent on a very special and peculiar mission: to seek out and kill the founder of the church. There are only two problems: No one knows what the founder looks like, and...he's been dead for two centuries! But Conger has one identifying clue - the founder's skull.

The claws were bad enough in the first place - nasty, crawling little death robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace - if it could.

A war between the Soviet Union and the United States has been going on for years. Americans have resorted to guerrilla warfare, with small contingents operating deep within the enemy-occupied territory. As a desperate measure, they have constructed extremely efficient killer robots called claws that can operate on their own and are capable of repairing themselves and improving on their own design. Be careful what you design. Never make it smarter than yourself.

This 1953 science fiction short story takes place somewhere in the future. The Cold War has turned into a hot war, and the Soviets are engaged in a war with the Americans. The war has become so hot that the surface of the world is no longer habitable by humans. The surface of the earth has become a radioactive nuclear wasteland, but the war must go on and it is being conducted by highly intelligent robots.

Nella California del 1998 il tempo scorre in senso inverso. A causa di un bizzarro fenomeno scientifico chiamato "Fase Hobart", i morti risorgono dalle tombe, diventano adulti, giovani, adolescenti, infanti, per poi tornare nel grembo da cui provengono. Le sigarette si fumano a partire dalle cicche, si saluta il prossimo con un "addio" e ci si congeda con un "ciao", a tavola si dà di stomaco invece di mangiare. Alcune ditte specializzate, i "vitarium", si occupano di prelevare dai cimiteri i defunti che ritornano al mondo.

In una tranquilla cittadina americana degli anni Cinquanta vive Ragle Gumm, un bravo ragazzo che ogni giorno si impegna a vincere un concorso del quotidiano locale, cercando allegramente di sedurre la moglie del vicino. Ma il giovane sembra essere consapevole di un altro mondo e di un altro tempo, che cospirano contro di lui, e non si tratta di un semplice caso di paranoia. Ragle Gumm, in qualche modo, è al centro del mondo.

Ten-year old Tony Rossi, an Earthman growing up on Betelgeuse, becomes aware that the natives, known as the "Pas-Udeti", are driving out the Earthmen colonists on nearby Orion. His father, a staunch believer in the superiority of Earthmen, describes Tony's native friends as "Beetles". A trip into town to meet his native friends leads to awkward encounters with a Pas-Udeti cab driver and a fellow bus passenger.

A space traveler lands on a beautiful planet inhabited by huge peaceful beasts and a beautiful woman, or perhaps a god, and it's not a good idea for Mr. Machismo man to mess with this god.

This audiobook contains three stories from the pen of Philip K. Dick, a science-fiction writer of the 1950s. The stories are: "Beyond Lies the Wub", "The Gun", and "Beyond the Door".