Best Philip K. Dick Books

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Blade Runner

by Philip K. Dick

In a world where owning a real animal is the ultimate status symbol, android hunters question the line between human and artificial consciousness. Dick's paranoid vision inspired Blade Runner.

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In a world where owning a real animal is the ultimate status symbol, android hunters question the line between human and artificial consciousness. Dick's paranoid vision inspired Blade Runner.

Ubik

by Philip K. Dick

Glen Runciter is dead—or maybe everyone else is—as reality becomes increasingly unreliable and messages from the deceased boss multiply. Dick's most unsettling novel questions the nature of life, death, and consciousness itself.

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Glen Runciter is dead—or maybe everyone else is—as reality becomes increasingly unreliable and messages from the deceased boss multiply. Dick's most unsettling novel questions the nature of life, death, and consciousness itself.

The Complete Short Stories

by Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem, Chris Malbon, Georgia Hill, Anna Millais, Jeremy Wilson, Raisa Álava, Chris Thornley

Dick's complete short fiction spans from android servants to time-traveling assassins, exploring every corner of his reality-questioning imagination across 118 stories.

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Dick's complete short fiction spans from android servants to time-traveling assassins, exploring every corner of his reality-questioning imagination across 118 stories.

The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories

by Philip K. Dick

These essential Dick stories explore precognition, false memories, and shifting realities with the philosophical depth that made him science fiction's most influential paranoid visionary.

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These essential Dick stories explore precognition, false memories, and shifting realities with the philosophical depth that made him science fiction's most influential paranoid visionary.

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

by Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson

Martian Time-Slip

by Philip K. Dick

Ten-year-old Manfred's schizophrenia may be humanity's window into Mars' future, turning him from deportation candidate to political pawn. Dick's exploration of mental illness and time perception feels decades ahead of its time.

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Ten-year-old Manfred's schizophrenia may be humanity's window into Mars' future, turning him from deportation candidate to political pawn. Dick's exploration of mental illness and time perception feels decades ahead of its time.

The Penultimate Truth

by Philip K. Dick

Dick imagines a world where underground masses are fed fake war footage while elites enjoy peace above. The novel asks whether comfortable lies trump devastating truths.

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Dick imagines a world where underground masses are fed fake war footage while elites enjoy peace above. The novel asks whether comfortable lies trump devastating truths.

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

Dick's alternate history imagines 1962 America divided between Nazi and Japanese occupation, where survivors navigate daily life under fascist rule while questioning the nature of reality itself.

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Dick's alternate history imagines 1962 America divided between Nazi and Japanese occupation, where survivors navigate daily life under fascist rule while questioning the nature of reality itself.

The Game-Players of Titan

by Philip K. Dick

Dick turns post-alien-invasion Earth into a cosmic casino where humans gamble away cities, spouses, and sanity in increasingly surreal games with telepathic slugs.

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Dick turns post-alien-invasion Earth into a cosmic casino where humans gamble away cities, spouses, and sanity in increasingly surreal games with telepathic slugs.

The World Jones Made

by Philip K. Dick

Floyd Jones can see the future, but his real power lies in making people dream again in a society where dreaming has been outlawed—even when those dreams might destroy everything.

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Floyd Jones can see the future, but his real power lies in making people dream again in a society where dreaming has been outlawed—even when those dreams might destroy everything.

Our Friends From Frolix 8

by Philip K. Dick

Menial worker Nick and elite ruler Willis both pursue black market revolutionary Charlotte in Dick's fast-paced exploration of love across class warfare.

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Menial worker Nick and elite ruler Willis both pursue black market revolutionary Charlotte in Dick's fast-paced exploration of love across class warfare.

The Man Who Japed

by Philip K. Dick

After nuclear war, society rebuilds itself around oppressive morality enforced by tiny surveillance robots—until Allen Purcell gets the power to change everything.

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After nuclear war, society rebuilds itself around oppressive morality enforced by tiny surveillance robots—until Allen Purcell gets the power to change everything.

Great Classic Science Fiction

Great Classic Stories (BBC Audio)

by H.G. Wells, James H. Schmitz, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton

Wells' 'The Door in the Wall' joins Dick's 'The Defenders' and five other classics spanning sci-fi's golden age. Anthology showcasing genre evolution from pulp to sophistication.

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Wells' 'The Door in the Wall' joins Dick's 'The Defenders' and five other classics spanning sci-fi's golden age. Anthology showcasing genre evolution from pulp to sophistication.