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Book Synopsis Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by : Philip K. Dick
Download or read book Humpty Dumpty in Oakland written by Philip K. Dick and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in San Francisco in the late 1950s, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate salesmen: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom Philip K.Dick always reserved his greatest sympathy. Jim Fergesson is an elderly garage owner with a heart condition, who is about to retire; Al Miller is a somewhat feckless mechanic who sublets part of Jim's lot and finds his livelihood threatened by the decision to sell; Chris Harman is a record-company owner who for years has relied on Fergesson to maintain his cars. When Harman hears of Fergesson's impending retirement he tips him off to what he says is a cast-iron business proposition: a development in nearby Marin County with an opening for a garage. Al Miller is convinced that Harman is a crook, out to fleece Fergesson of his life's savings. As much as he resents Fergesson he can't bear to see it happen and--denying to himself all the time what he is doing--he sets out to thwart Harman. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Humpty Dumpty à Oakland by : Philip K. Dick
Download or read book Humpty Dumpty à Oakland written by Philip K. Dick and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Humpty Dumpty à Oakland by : Philip Kindred Dick
Download or read book Humpty Dumpty à Oakland written by Philip Kindred Dick and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco dans les années 1950. Jim Fergusson, , patron d'un garage, décide de prendre sa retraite à la suite d'un défaillance cardiaque. Il compromet ainsi la situation de Al Miller à qui il loue une partie de son local. Al Miller vivote en vendant des voitures. Sa situation est précaire mais sa femme a de l'ambition pour deux... Aux prises avec ses contradictions, Al tente de les résoudre sans pour autant perdre son âme.
Book Synopsis Humpty Dumpty à Oakland by : Philip K. Dick
Download or read book Humpty Dumpty à Oakland written by Philip K. Dick and published by J'ai Lu. This book was released on 2017-07-03T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oakland, 1960. Al Miller, vendeur de vieux tacots à peine rafistolés, voit sa situation professionnelle se dégrader brutalement le jour où Jim Fergesson, le patron du garage qui lui loue une partie de ses locaux, décide de prendre sa retraite et de vendre son affaire. Fergesson ne tarde pas à devenir la proie de Chris Harman, un agent immobilier qui entend le convaincre d’investir les économies d’une vie dans un programme résidentiel dans le comté de Marin. Malgré son ressentiment, Al ne laissera pas le vieux se faire arnaquer aussi facilement...
Book Synopsis Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by : Philip K. Dick
Download or read book Humpty Dumpty in Oakland written by Philip K. Dick and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Al Miller is a sad case, someone who can't seem to lift himself up from his stagnant and disappointing life. He's a self-proclaimed nobody, a used car salesman with a lot full of junkers." "His elderly landlord, Jim Fergesson, has decided to retire because of a heart condition and has just cashed in on his property, which includes his garage, and, next to it, the lot that Al rents. This leaves Al wondering what his next step should be, and if he even cares." "Chris Harman is a record-company owner who has relied of Fergesson's to fix his Cadillac for many years. When he hears about Fergesson's sudden retirement fund, he tells him about a new realty development and urges him to invest in it. According to Harman, it's a surefire path to easy wealth. Fergusson is swayed. This is his chance to be a real businessman, a well-to-do, respected gentlemen, like Harman." "But Al is convinced that Harman is a crook out to fleece Fergesson. Even if he doesn't particularly like Fergesson, Al is not going to stand by and watch him get cheated. Only Al's not very good at this, either. He may not even be right."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike by : Philip K Dick
Download or read book The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike written by Philip K Dick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small town America tears itself apart in this realist novel from one of the greats of science fiction Leo Runcible - of Runcible Realty - is too excitable and too pushy. His wife drinks too much. He may be a man of principle, but Liberal Jewish Leo is an outsider in the lilywhite Carquinez, Marin County. When he gets into a pointless argument with a customer over his neighbour Walt Dombrosio's house guests, the resulting ramifications follow a bizarre logic of cause and effect to lead in entirely unexpected directions ... And can Leo really have found the skull of a Neanderthal man in middle America? THE MAN WHOSE TEETH WERE ALL EXACTLY ALIKE is a dazzling novel by a writer famous for his power to surprise and delight.
Book Synopsis Nick and the Glimmung by : Philip K Dick
Download or read book Nick and the Glimmung written by Philip K Dick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick and his family are forced to leave Earth in order for him to keep his cat, Horace - because all pets are now banned, as they use up badly needed resources. They settle on Plowman's Planet, where they discover a variety of strange and wonderful alien lifeforms. But not all of these weird lifeforms are benevolent - and the family is involved in a series of increasingly dangerous mishaps. Can Horace and Nick manage to outwit the Wub, the Werjes, the Trobes - and the most dangerous of all, the Glimmung? Philip K. Dick's only children's book, first published after his death, brings together many of his most famous alien creations in one gently humorous tale.
Book Synopsis Gun, With Occasional Music by : Jonathan Lethem
Download or read book Gun, With Occasional Music written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-01-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first-century private detective Conrad Metcalf has a dead doctor on his hands, a monkey on his back, and a kangaroo in his waiting room in a first novel with a sharp-edged, funny vision of the future.
Book Synopsis The World Jones Made by : Philip K. Dick
Download or read book The World Jones Made written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could see into the future? Award-winning author Philip K. Dick examines precognition in this influential novel.
Book Synopsis Mary and the Giant by : Philip K Dick
Download or read book Mary and the Giant written by Philip K Dick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Anne Reynolds is a young and vulnerable woman, determined to make her own way in the world. But Pacific Park, California, in the 1950s is not really the place for Mary. Her relationship with a black singer offends against the small town's views on sexual mores and exposes its bigoted views on race.
Book Synopsis Time Out of Joint by : Philip K. Dick
Download or read book Time Out of Joint written by Philip K. Dick and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you've ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep you from knowing who you really are. Which it is, of course."--"Rolling Stone" 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 he's never heard of named Marilyn Monroe. 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." When Ragle skips town to try to find the cause of these bizarre occurrences, his discovery could make him question everything he has ever known.
Book Synopsis Voices from the Street by : Philip K Dick
Download or read book Voices from the Street written by Philip K Dick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Dick's earliest books but his last to be published, this is the story of one man's descent into depression and madness - and his escape to the other side Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life. He has a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement - but he still feels unfulfilled. Something is missing from his life. Hadley is also an angry young man - an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, then sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working and it is driving him crazy. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear. Is there anything that can bring him back to the world? Winner of both the HUGO and JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDs for BEST NOVEL, Philip K. Dick is widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day. The object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, he has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.
Book Synopsis The Man in the High Castle by : Philip K. Dick
Download or read book The Man in the High Castle written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.
Download or read book Other Goose written by J.otto Seibold and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, Miss Muffet, and others like they've never been seen before. Renowned artist J.otto Seibold re-nurseries and re-rhymes over the Mother Goose classics in this must-have collection. Full color.
Book Synopsis A Scanner Darkly by : Philip K. Dick
Download or read book A Scanner Darkly written by Philip K. Dick and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1977 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.
Download or read book The Relic Guild written by Edward Cox and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic caused the war. Magic is forbidden. Magic will save us. It was said the Labyrinth had once been the great meeting place, a sprawling city at the heart of an endless maze where a million humans hosted the Houses of the Aelfir. The Aelfir who had brought trade and riches, and a future full of promise. But when the Thaumaturgists, overlords of human and Aelfir alike, went to war, everything was ruined and the Labyrinth became an abandoned forbidden zone, where humans were trapped behind boundary walls 100 feet high. Now the Aelfir are a distant memory and the Thaumaturgists have faded into myth. Young Clara struggles to survive in a dangerous and dysfunctional city, where eyes are keen, nights are long, and the use of magic is punishable by death. She hides in the shadows, fearful that someone will discover she is touched by magic. She knows her days are numbered. But when a strange man named Fabian Moor returns to the Labyrinth, Clara learns that magic serves a higher purpose and that some myths are much more deadly in the flesh. The only people Clara can trust are the Relic Guild, a secret band of magickers sworn to protect the Labyrinth. But the Relic Guild are now too few. To truly defeat their old nemesis Moor, mightier help will be required. To save the Labyrinth - and the lives of one million humans - Clara and the Relic Guild must find a way to contact the worlds beyond their walls.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Planet by : Clifford D. Simak
Download or read book Shakespeare's Planet written by Clifford D. Simak and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human space traveler trapped on a remote planet must somehow unravel a confounding alien technology—or else surrender himself to a host of incomprehensible horrors For thousands of years, Carter Horton has been traveling across the galaxy toward a distant world capable of supporting human life. At journey’s end, awakened from his millennia-long sleep by a curiously adaptive android, he is informed that his crewmates have all perished due to a system malfunction. But worse is yet to come: Horton’s sentient ship is refusing to return him to Earth, and a strangely cordial predator is waiting for him on the planet’s surface. The repulsive creature, Carnivore, arrived here via a tunnel across the universe, as did his late companion—a human dubbing himself William Shakespeare—whom Carnivore just recently devoured. But the tunnel moves in only one direction, and if Carter is unable to reverse it, he will find himself marooned forever in this incomprehensible world, at the mercy of monsters and a terrifying, mind-freezing alien anomaly that occurs every evening in the “God-hour.” With unparalleled verve, award-winning science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak performs a truly astonishing feat of world-creation in Shakespeare’s Planet. Bursting with intelligence, imagination, and breathtaking invention, this is a gem of speculative fiction from one of the genre’s most revered and innovative artists.
