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The Divine Invasion
- VALIS, Book 2
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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Kidnapped at an early age, Ansset has been raised in isolation at a mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life is filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any other. But Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse, for it reflects all the hopes and fears of his audience, and, by magnifying their emotions, can be used either to heal or to destroy.
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Terrible and Beautiful
- De hopalong en 12-17-06
De: Orson Scott Card
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The Just City
- Thessaly, Book 1
- De: Jo Walton
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community populated by over 10,000 children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past.
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Could Not Get Past Mispronunciations
- De Martha K. en 04-22-17
De: Jo Walton
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Safely Home
- De: Randy Alcorn
- Narrado por: Steve Sever
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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Here is a soul-stirring story of two college friends who reconnect after 20 years. One is living life apart from God, in comfortable corporate America; the other is living for Christ under intense persecution in China. This challenging book will convince readers to live in the light of eternity.
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Will this be the day that I die?
- De Johnny Excitement en 01-17-08
De: Randy Alcorn
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Aleph
- De: Paulo Coelho
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny. his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him. Setting off to Africa, and then to Europe and Asia via the Trans-Siberian Railway, he initiates a journey to revitalize his energy and passion.
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Strangely compelling read
- De Kathy in CA en 11-22-11
De: Paulo Coelho
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Man Plus
- De: Frederik Pohl
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris, Robert J. Sawyer
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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Roger Torraway watched in horror as the monster lurched, toppled over and died. Project Man Plus had gone suddenly and drastically wrong. The race to colonize Mars was too important, too costly, and America was already too committed, for plans to be scrapped. They would have to make a new Martian. And Roger Torraway was it, candidate for the endless surgery, operation after painful operation, that would enable him to survive on that faraway planet.
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More timely now than ever
- De Sandy R en 06-28-10
De: Frederik Pohl
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The Immigrants
- De: Howard Fast
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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This is a love story of great beauty and great tenderness, the kind of love story that entangles the listener in the lives of the characters, so that after the story is over, one continues to live with those characters. And fortunately, the listener will not have to say farewell to these characters, since it is the first in a series that will tell the story of three Californian families over the course of the 20th century.
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Narration style kills the story.
- De Glynis en 11-27-14
De: Howard Fast
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White Noise
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- De RI in Canada en 10-15-16
De: Don DeLillo
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I, Robot
- De: Isaac Asimov
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities, and unforeseen risks.
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Thank you
- De Fredrik en 06-11-04
De: Isaac Asimov
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Stonefather
- De: Orson Scott Card
- Narrado por: Emily Janice Card
- Duración: 3 h y 9 m
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When Runnel leaves his mountain valley to head for the great city of the water mages, he has no idea of his own magical talents. But he soon finds that without meaning to, he complicates and then endangers the lives of everyone he comes to know and care about. For when it comes to magic, there are rules and laws, and the untrained mage-to-be must be careful not to tap into deep forces and ancient enmities. Otherwise, other people might end up paying the price for his mistakes.
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Familiar and unique--a breath of fresh air
- De Scott en 03-10-09
De: Orson Scott Card
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
- De: Monica Wood
- Narrado por: Chris Ciulla
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness for his paternal shortcomings by completing the requirements for one of his son's unfinished Boy Scout badges. For seven Saturdays Quinn does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the spry 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly.
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Loved it
- De Justin en 10-20-16
De: Monica Wood
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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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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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Time Out of Joint
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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Ragle Gumm has a unique job: Every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn’t consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town, in 1959. At least, that’s what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet named Marilyn Monroe, whom he’s never heard of. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them, like "bowl of flowers" and "soft-drink stand".
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Mediocre Mother to Gravity's Rainbow and the Truman Show?
- De Darwin8u en 06-13-15
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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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence. Especially when the drug is Can-D, which transports its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat. When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one that might bring the user closer to God. But in a world where everyone is tripping, no promises can be taken at face value.
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Fantastic and current
- De Jerry Witt en 12-20-15
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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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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Time Out of Joint
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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Ragle Gumm has a unique job: Every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn’t consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town, in 1959. At least, that’s what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet named Marilyn Monroe, whom he’s never heard of. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them, like "bowl of flowers" and "soft-drink stand".
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Mediocre Mother to Gravity's Rainbow and the Truman Show?
- De Darwin8u en 06-13-15
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
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
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On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence. Especially when the drug is Can-D, which transports its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat. When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one that might bring the user closer to God. But in a world where everyone is tripping, no promises can be taken at face value.
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Fantastic and current
- De Jerry Witt en 12-20-15
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Crack in Space
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Benjamin L. Darcie
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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When a repairman accidentally discovers a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace? Or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world?
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Relevant reading for 2020
- De Anonymous User en 11-06-20
De: Philip K. Dick
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Now Wait for Last Year
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader is perpetually on the verge of death. And on top of that, a new drug has just entered circulation - a drug that haphazardly sends its users traveling through time. In an attempt to escape his doomed marriage, Dr. Eric Sweetscent becomes caught up in all of it. But he has questions: Is Earth on the right side of the war? Is he supposed to heal Earth’s leader or keep him sick? And can he change the harrowing future that the drug has shown him?
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Last/Best Self-help Book for Couples and Suicides
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-15
De: Philip K. Dick
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Volume I: The King of the Elves
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Kate Rudd
- Duración: 20 h y 9 m
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The King of the Elves is the opening installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, expanded from the previous Collected Stories set to incorporate new story notes, and two added tales, one previously unpublished, and one uncollected.
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Fantastic stories!
- De Renee Tang en 04-18-17
De: Philip K. Dick
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A Maze of Death
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Benjamin L. Darcie
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only 14 citizens, no one can trust anyone else and death can strike at any moment. The planet is vast and largely unexplored, populated mostly by gelatinous cube-shaped beings that give cryptic advice in the form of anagrams. Deities can be spoken to directly via a series of prayer amplifiers and transmitters, but they may not be happy about it. And the mysterious building in the distance draws all the colonists to it, but when they get there each sees a different motto on the front.
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JJ Abrams YOU are a book thief.
- De Darwin8u en 08-24-13
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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Captivating
- De E en 05-17-16
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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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
- De: Jonathan Lethem - editor, Pamela Jackson - editor, Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 52 h y 6 m
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Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this is the definitive presentation of Dick’s brilliant, and epic, work.
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Fascinating Journals of a Garage Philosopher
- De Rich S. en 10-05-13
De: Jonathan Lethem - editor, y otros
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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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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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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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Total Recall
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 59 m
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Philip K. Dick’s classic short story tells the story of Douglas Quail, an unfulfilled bureaucrat who dreams of visiting Mars, but can't afford the trip. Luckily, there is Rekal Incorporated, a company that lets everyday stiffs believe they’ve been on incredible adventures. The only problem is that when technicians attempt a memory implant of a spy mission to Mars, they find that real memories of just such a trip are already in Quail's brain. Suddenly, Quail is running for his life from government agents, but his memories might make him more of a liability than he is worth.
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PKD good one
- De Darryl en 09-18-12
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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- William Fletcher
- 02-11-18
epic
I would recommend this book to Philip K Dick fans everywhere. it surprised me with a deep and complex story. Far surpassing my initial estimates of the contents.
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- JOHN WENSINK
- 05-28-22
Awesome Voice Actor
Dick reads Dick. Great narration on this title really immersive performance. Wonder what other works he reads
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- Twin Simmons
- 07-27-21
A very quirky novel
PKD is my favorite author, yet I’m not sure I would describe any of his novels as “gripping” in a plot sense, but rather of a hallucinatory quality, of liminal realities converging and superimposing themselves on one another. This book is no exception, and I loved it for the reasons I love Dick, the combination of wild specificity and ludicrous reality. A character gets pulled over by a space policeman and goes on to explain the exact orchestration of the Mahler 2nd Symphony, down to the number of oboes and contrabassoons. In keeping with the VALIS trilogy, there is a great deal of theology here, though this book is more Jewish, while VALIS was more Christian. Both are heavily mixed with Eastern dualism and Dick’s own cosmogony. Essentially a thinly veiled explication of his own beliefs, the characters are still interesting enough, though we’ve seem them all before. Not one of his better books, but not a bad one. I genuinely enjoyed it for the aforementioned reasons, but it is admittedly simultaneously thin and dense, a bit inscrutable, and at once, too scrutable.
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- mistercat
- 04-22-24
Much better than VALIS: Book 1
It has character, story and a minimum of philosophical meandering compared to the original VALIS. The attempts at female voices were highly grating. Also, I could often not distinguish Emmanuel from Zina in their conversations. Sadly confusing in an already deliberately confusing fiction.
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- Judd Family
- 11-28-17
wow
Tjis book is great and I can't wait to listen to it again. The changes in time threw me off sometimes but that is also what made it a fun book
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- Jordan Zinn
- 05-29-24
pkd never disappoints
another mind bending trip through the God head. I wouldn't rank this one as high as a scanner darkly but it delivers nonetheless
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- Phoebe
- 04-30-18
not as good as Valis
the book had a lot of good parts, w intersting characters..and it had great PKD craziness/brilliance. but I felt it finished poorly, like he was trying to wrap it up w some symbolic characterizations of Judeo symbols. It rang, stiff and preachy here and there and doubled down in the end. I'm not sure I'm going to listen to the 3rd book in this series.
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 05-06-18
An extended nativity, the second time around
The Divine Invasion, Philip K Dick's 2nd book in his VALIS trilogy is a standalone tale that begins as a pure SF story, but quickly evolves to a theological escapade that recapitulates the birth of Christ complete with an immaculate conception, virgin birth, and no room at the inn. With the Joseph and Mary stand-ins coming in from a colony world to an Earth that is controlled by hostile religious tyrants, Dick explores the notions of a split godhead.
Dick's sci-fi elements are muted except at the beginning with interstellar colonization. Cryogenic storage is developed with sophisticated transplant technology, but the real focus is a religious theme with the notion of a godhead that has two distinct parts, the creator and the protector. Thrown in is the notion that for the past many centuries, Earth has been under the control of an evil entity with the return of the creator representing the divine invasion.
The narration is superb with good character distinction and solid pacing for a good flow given the extent of philosophical discussions. Overall, the story is a bit weak, but does offer a glimpse into Dick's theological thinking.
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- Brendan Morrison
- 02-25-15
so wierd
Dick is one of my favorite writers, but the divine trilogy books are so strange. The plot seems secondary to the sense of the profound. If you are a P.K. Dick fan go for it, if not, well... good luck.
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- tatiana lindsey
- 08-16-21
Absolutely the perfect title for this deep tale.
Its so difficult to put into words, but if you've ever deeply questioned reality, your sanity, religious beliefs, or ALL of the above then this tale may resonate with you in an eerily profound way. I couldn't have found this book at a better time in my life. Enjoy.
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