Philip K. Dick
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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war -- and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
2) Valis
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What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick's [...] 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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Combining political intrigue, time travel, family drama, and all the perils that come with being the first at anything, Hugo Award—winning author Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip follows a group of exiled colonists on Mars and the ten-year-old psychic among them, a boy so powerful he not only looks into the future but can send people there.
On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land before the UN develops...
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The Adjustment Team, work to adjust reality. Ed was supposed to go to the right place and time but he didn't and caught a glimpse of how unreal the world really is and has to deal with the results. Spence Olham is confronted by a colleague and accused of being an android impostor designed to sabotage Earth's defenses. Planet for Transients is a future where some humans wear lead-lined spacesuits to protect against radiation others have adapted.
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Presents a collection of eighteen stories and novellas written between 1954 and 1963-- including such novels as Martian Time Slip and the Hugo Award-winning The Man in the High Castle. Included here are "Autofac", a post-apocalyptic tale in which humans share the devastated Earth with the machines they have created but no longer fully control; "The mold of Yancy", a portrait of a world reduced to bland conformity by the vapid, and ubiquitous pronouncements...