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In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now, the technology-eschewing world known as the New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth quickly sends a battle fleet - but is it coming to the rescue, or is a sinister plot in motion?
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Gonzo giggleworthy geekitude
- De Noah Smith en 11-11-10
De: Charles Stross
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Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds
- The First Adventure of Alacrity Fitzhugh & Hobart Floyt
- De: Brian Daley
- Narrado por: Brian Holsopple
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Earth's rulers, for Hobart Floyt--a minor Terran bureaucrat-- had been left a mysterious inheritance by the deceased ruler of a small but wealthy interstellar empire.
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Best Sci Fi Fun anywhere!
- De A. Foxter en 07-07-15
De: Brian Daley
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Worlds of the Imperium
- De: Keith Laumer
- Narrado por: Mark Douglas Nelson
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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When Brion Bayard was kidnapped and brought to the alternate world where Earth's history took a different turn, it was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, a startling experience. Here was a world that was just like the Earth he was taken from--with just a few subtle changes. On top of all this, Brion was given a puzzling assignment by his captors. He was to secretly enter a palace, and kill a dangerous and tyrannical dictator. There was one, small catch--the hated dictator in this world was the mirror image of Brion Bayard.
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Like listening to someone read the phone book
- De Scott en 03-04-19
De: Keith Laumer
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To the Stars
- De: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrado por: Robert Caso, Jim Meskimen, R.F. Daley, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
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How far is too far? Alan Corday is about to find out. Corday is shanghaied aboard a craft bound for the stars...on a journey at the speed of light, the world he leaves behind fast vanishing into the past. And nothing in the dark, forbidding reaches of space can prepare him for the astounding discovery he will make upon his return from the stars.
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To the Stars
- De John en 12-01-04
De: L. Ron Hubbard
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Make Room! Make Room!
- De: Harry Harrison
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone.
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Unable to see
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 01-21-12
De: Harry Harrison
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Footfall
- De: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 24 h y 34 m
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They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods.
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle at Their Best
- De Flatlander en 06-24-10
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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At Any Price & Rolling Hot
- Hammer's Slammers Series
- De: David Drake
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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This two-story compiliation, read by Stefan Rudnicki, offers two stories from David Drake's popular Hammer's Slammers series. In At Any Price, Col. Alois Hammer's indomitable Slammers are called in to support human colonists against a native uprising in this novel-length adventure. But even though the natives' off-world weapons are no match for the Slammers, their ability to teleport gives them a frightening advantage! In Rolling Hot, the battle-crazed troop of recruits and vets, led by Captain Ranson, must cover 300 miles of hostile enemy territory.
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Not a cohesive story or stories
- De Jeffery en 01-19-21
De: David Drake
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Sleepwalk
- De: John Saul
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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Another terrifying, classic horror novel from best-selling author John Saul. An insidious madman haunts the peaceful town of Borrego, New Mexico. His goal is singular, as is the focus of his hate and rage. The teenagers of the town seem to have gone too far, and now he will strike back - while they sleep and even during their waking hours - and silence them forever.
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Loved it.
- De Karen R. Anderson en 02-22-19
De: John Saul
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The Sheriff of Yrnameer
- A Novel
- De: Michael Rubens
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Meet Cole: hapless space rogue, part-time smuggler, on a path to being full-time dead. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxy's most hideous and feared bounty hunter wants to lay eggs in his brain. And the luxury space yacht Cole just hijacked turns out of be filled with interstellar do-gooders, one especially loathsome stowaway, and a cargo of freeze-dried orphans.
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Fun, Light-hearted SF
- De Martin Moore en 08-30-09
De: Michael Rubens
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Cold City
- Repairman Jack: Early Years Trilogy, Book 1
- De: F. Paul Wilson
- Narrado por: Alexander Cendese
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.
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Fun, as long you don't think too much
- De Andrew Pollack en 01-17-14
De: F. Paul Wilson
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2113
- Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush
- De: John McFetridge - editor, Kevin J. Anderson - editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h
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The music of Rush, one of the most successful bands in music history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, thought-provoking futures and pasts. In this anthology, notable, best-selling, and award-winning writers each chose a Rush song as the spark for a new story, drawing inspiration from the visionary trio Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.
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I'm a RUSH fan, but ...no..not this book
- De NBP en 07-15-17
De: John McFetridge - editor, y otros
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Titans
- De: Edward W. Robertson
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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Rob Dunbar is the world's best history professor. And with good reason: he's been alive for 3,000 years, keeping his existence a secret since before the days of Athens. But a stranger named Baxter has a better use for Rob's vast expertise. Baxter's looking to found a mining company in the Asteroid Belt. In exchange for Rob's help, he'll try to unravel the mystery of Rob's origin. As they're getting their outfit off the ground, they come under covert attack by HemiCo, a powerful Mars-based corporation.
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- De Adam en 09-29-16
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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Our Friends from Frolix 8
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn’t wealth or privilege, but brains. As children, every citizen of Earth is tested; some are found to be super-smart New Men and some are Unusuals with various psychic powers. The vast majority are Undermen, performing menial jobs in an overpopulated world.
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Unhatched eggs sat on by a cosmic chicken
- De Darwin8u en 03-30-17
De: Philip K. Dick
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The World Jones Made
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortuneteller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may be able to free society from its paralyzing Relativism. If, that is, he can avoid the radioactively unstable government hit man on his tail.
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We can't destroy Jones
- De Darwin8u en 01-15-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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Eye in the Sky
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy. Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic, and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious takedowns.
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Báb's Treatise Between the Two Fern-like Sanctuaries
- De Darwin8u en 01-31-15
De: Philip K. Dick
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Galactic Pot-Healer
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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Sometimes even gods need help. In Galactic Pot-Healer that god is an alien creature known as the Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy to Plowman’s Planet. Joe Fernwright is one of those summoned, needed for his skills at pot-healing - repairing broken ceramics. But from the moment Joe arrives on Plowman’s Planet, things start to go awry. Is the Glimmung good or evil?
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If You Like your Pottery & Gods Fractured & Funky
- De Darwin8u en 03-29-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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We Can Build You
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick intertwines the story of a toxic love affair with one about sentient robots, and unflinchingly views it all through the prism of mental illness - which spares neither human nor robot. The end result is one of Dick’s most quietly powerful works. When Louis Rosen’s electronic-organ company builds a pitch-perfect robotic replica of Abraham Lincoln, the firm is pulled into the orbit of a shady businessman, who is looking to use Lincoln for his own profit.
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Simulacra for me & simulacra for you.
- De Darwin8u en 01-15-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Game-Players of Titan
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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Years ago, Earth and Titan fought a war and Earth lost. The planet was irradiated and most of the surviving population is sterile. The few survivors play an intricate and unending game called Bluff at the behest of the sluglike aliens who rule the planet. At stake in the game are two very important commodities: land and spouses. Pete Garden just lost his wife and Berkeley, California, but he has a plan to win them back. That is, if he isn’t derailed by aliens, psychic traitors, or his new wife.
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Game, set, match!
- De Darwin8u en 11-16-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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Our Friends from Frolix 8
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn’t wealth or privilege, but brains. As children, every citizen of Earth is tested; some are found to be super-smart New Men and some are Unusuals with various psychic powers. The vast majority are Undermen, performing menial jobs in an overpopulated world.
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Unhatched eggs sat on by a cosmic chicken
- De Darwin8u en 03-30-17
De: Philip K. Dick
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The World Jones Made
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortuneteller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may be able to free society from its paralyzing Relativism. If, that is, he can avoid the radioactively unstable government hit man on his tail.
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We can't destroy Jones
- De Darwin8u en 01-15-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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Eye in the Sky
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy. Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic, and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious takedowns.
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Báb's Treatise Between the Two Fern-like Sanctuaries
- De Darwin8u en 01-31-15
De: Philip K. Dick
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Galactic Pot-Healer
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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Sometimes even gods need help. In Galactic Pot-Healer that god is an alien creature known as the Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy to Plowman’s Planet. Joe Fernwright is one of those summoned, needed for his skills at pot-healing - repairing broken ceramics. But from the moment Joe arrives on Plowman’s Planet, things start to go awry. Is the Glimmung good or evil?
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If You Like your Pottery & Gods Fractured & Funky
- De Darwin8u en 03-29-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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We Can Build You
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick intertwines the story of a toxic love affair with one about sentient robots, and unflinchingly views it all through the prism of mental illness - which spares neither human nor robot. The end result is one of Dick’s most quietly powerful works. When Louis Rosen’s electronic-organ company builds a pitch-perfect robotic replica of Abraham Lincoln, the firm is pulled into the orbit of a shady businessman, who is looking to use Lincoln for his own profit.
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Simulacra for me & simulacra for you.
- De Darwin8u en 01-15-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Game-Players of Titan
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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Years ago, Earth and Titan fought a war and Earth lost. The planet was irradiated and most of the surviving population is sterile. The few survivors play an intricate and unending game called Bluff at the behest of the sluglike aliens who rule the planet. At stake in the game are two very important commodities: land and spouses. Pete Garden just lost his wife and Berkeley, California, but he has a plan to win them back. That is, if he isn’t derailed by aliens, psychic traitors, or his new wife.
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Game, set, match!
- De Darwin8u en 11-16-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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Martian Time-Slip
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land before the Un develops it and its value skyrockets. Martian Union leader Arnie Kott has an ace up his sleeve, though: an autistic boy named Manfred who seems to have the ability to see the future. In the hopes of gaining an advantage on a Martian real estate deal, powerful people force Manfred to send them into the future, where they can learn about development plans.
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Autism, schizophrenia, and Martians
- De Darwin8u en 01-22-17
De: Philip K. Dick
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Counter-Clock World
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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In Counter-Clock World, time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye", blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first - but their motives are not exactly benevolent, because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave.
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Our Man in the Graveyard
- De Darwin8u en 01-15-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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Lies, Inc.
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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When catastrophic overpopulation threatens Earth, one company offers to teleport citizens to Whale’s Mouth, an allegedly pristine new home for happy and industrious émigrés. But there is one problem: the teleportation machine works in only one direction. When Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that some of the footage of happy settlers may have been faked, he sets out on an 18-year journey to see if anyone wants to come back.
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The Unteleported Man
- De Darwin8u en 01-15-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Penultimate Truth
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Nick Podehl
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they’ve fled. Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return above ground. But when Nick St. James, president of one anthill, makes an unauthorized trip to the surface, what he finds is more shocking than anything he could imagine.
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Not One of Dick's Best
- De Richard en 03-21-12
De: Philip K. Dick
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Confessions of a Crap Artist
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Jack Isidore doesn’t see the world like most people. According to his brother-in-law, Charley, he’s a crap artist, obsessed with his own bizarre theories and ideas, which he fanatically records in his many notebooks. He is so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But while Fay and Charley Hume put on a happy face for the world, they prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack’s but a great deal uglier.
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The moods of the mass can't be fathomed...
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-18
De: Philip K. Dick
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Dr. Futurity
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 5 h y 25 m
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When Dr. Jim Parsons awakens after a car accident, he finds himself in a future populated almost entirely by the young. But for the young to keep running the world, death is fetishized, and those who survive to old age are put down. In such a world, Parsons - with his innate desire to save lives - is a criminal and an outcast. For one revolutionary group, however, he may be just the savior they need to heal and revive their cryogenically frozen leader.
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Time's Second Arrow
- De Darwin8u en 11-16-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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Clans of the Alphane Moon
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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For years, the third moon in the Alphane system was used as a psychiatric hospital. But when war broke out between Earth and the Alphanes, the hospital was left unguarded and the inmates set up their own society, made up of competing factions based on their particular mental illnesses. When Earth sends a delegation to take back the colony, they find enclaves of depressives, schizophrenics, paranoiacs, and others uniting to repel what they see as a foreign invasion.
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One of my favorite
- De Phil F. en 05-06-21
De: Philip K. Dick
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Radio Free Albemuth
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings, Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that sounds like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest science fiction writer.
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The Pistol to the Head
- De Darwin8u en 01-02-17
De: Philip K. Dick
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Vulcan's Hammer
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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After the 20th century’s devastating series of wars, the world’s governments banded together into one globe-spanning entity, committed to peace at all costs. Ensuring that peace is the Vulcan supercomputer, responsible for all major decisions. But some people don’t like being taken out of the equation. And others resent the idea that the Vulcan is taking the place of God. As the world grows ever closer to all-out war, one functionary frantically tries to prevent it. But the Vulcan computer has its own plans....
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us!
- De Darwin8u en 02-08-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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Valis
- Valis, Book 1
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick's groundbreaking novel, the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.
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Life changing
- De Michael en 03-16-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Simulacra
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.
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In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
- De Darwin8u en 12-09-15
De: Philip K. Dick
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Dr. Bloodmoney
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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What happens after the bombs drop? This is the troubling question Philip K. Dick addresses with Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb. It is the story of a world reeling from the effects of nuclear annihilation and fallout, a world where mutated humans and animals are the norm, and the scattered survivors take comfort from a disc jockey endlessly circling the globe in a broken-down satellite.
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Post nuclear apocalyptic surburban middle class
- De Michael G Kurilla en 01-04-18
De: Philip K. Dick
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While not one of PKD’s first rate works, the book is mighty close to it and a thing of beauty in its own right.
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Dick's First Novel Seems All Grown Up.
"I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?”
― Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery
I figured Super Tuesday was an appropriate time to listen to PKD's first novel about lottery elections, random assassins, autocratic leaders, corruption, serfs, mad women, social control, telepathic security, idealism, cults, and the search for our galaxy's 10th planet.
It is hard to believe this was Dick's first novel. It seems so grown up; not quite ripe, but close enough to still be edible and enjoyable. It combines Dick's early space novels with his later, funky techno-politico-religious cynicism.
01 function minimax(node, depth, maximizingPlayer)
02 if depth = 0 or node is a terminal node
03 return the heuristic value of node
04 if maximizingPlayer
05 bestValue := −∞
06 for each child of node
07 v := minimax(child, depth − 1, FALSE)
08 bestValue := max(bestValue, v)
09 return bestValue
10 else (* minimizing player *)
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13 v := minimax(child, depth − 1, TRUE)
14 bestValue := min(bestValue, v)
15 return bestValue
Probably my favorite bit of this whole novel was Dick's bending of the idea of Minimax, a form of Nash Equilibrium and game theory. The election of a leader by random is offset by the almost simultaneous election of an assassin. In Dick's Zero-sum future, the random probability of a stupid leader is offset and minimized by the election of an average (or better than average) assassin. Thus, dumb leaders die quickly, good leaders last longer.
The climax of this novel involves both the epitome of game theory and the inevitable corruption. This might have been just a three-star novel, but for someone who loves economics, game theory, and good SF, this one needed/demanded a one-star upgrade.
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- Darryl
- 09-27-12
a little too disjointed for me
some PKD seems a little slap dash and for me this is one. there are several good ideas but i didn't feel they were coherently worked out and i was left feeling like there were 2 or 3 short stories jammed together and not completed satisfactorily. And the overall structure of the future society needed fleshing out for me, bits and pieces floated about, and in the end i had no clear vision of it, which tends to negate the plot line as such. there are several nice moments, but still can't recommend it when you can get Policeman, Androids, Valis and Scanner as well as High Castle instead. Still I will continue on with PKD.
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- Randall Flagg
- 01-05-17
Not one of his best
I love PKD but this is not one of his best books. The story is weak and the ending weaker still. Look elsewhere.
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