Confessions of a Crap Artist
Originally written in 1959, it was not published until 1975. It is one of the author’s dozen novels that do not belong to the science fiction genre.
The novel portrays a bitter and complex marital...
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Puttering About in a Small Land
Written in 1957, it was published posthumously in 1985. This novel does not belong to the science fiction genre.
The narrative begins in 1944, when Virginia and Roger meet in Washington and marry...
A Scanner Darkly
In this science fiction novel (with some elements of detective fiction), Dick imagines a near future in which the U.S. government has lost the battle against drugs. The situation is already horrifying: a...
Solar Lottery
“Solar Lottery” is a science fiction novel that places the reader in the 23rd century, in a world supposedly governed by numbers and chance, through a sophisticated lottery that results in the election of...
Ubik
The novel plays with the idea of a “time machine”, in this case based on a mysterious drug, “Ubik”, an aerosol that transports people to earlier situations. This is combined with the possibility that, in...
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Third volume of the Valis trilogy (Valis, Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer), it is a contemplative, introspective, and philosophical book. Published after the author’s death in 1982, it...
Time Out of Joint
One of Dick’s (1928–1982) most popular novels , which inspired the film The Truman Show.
The protagonist, Ragle Gumm, has a peculiar way of making a living: every day he takes part in a local...
Eye in the Sky
The fact that Dick is regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novelists does not, in my view, justify classifying his work simply as science fiction. It is true that he makes use of the genre’s...
The Penultimate Truth
Written in 1964, it sets the Third World War in 1982. It began as a two-year conflict over the conquest of Mars; all the minorities of Earth had been transferred there, and they die in the battle. The war...