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Philip K. Dick
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A short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in Space Science Fiction Magazine, in May 1953. A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West has reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. The war continues, however, among the scattered remains of humanity. The Western forces have recently developed "claws", which are autonomous self-replicating robots, to fight on their side. It is one of Dick's many stories in which nuclear war has rendered the Earth's surface uninhabitable.
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The Collected Works of Philip K. Dick: 11 Science Fiction Stories
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Kevin Killavey
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 254
The Collected Works of Philip K. Dick is a collection of 11 science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Stories...well read.
- De cindilla en 12-18-12
De: Philip K. Dick
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Blade Runner
- Originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,700
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,186
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,183
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment: find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is the original Do Androids Dream of Electric
- De D. ABIGT en 08-29-10
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Hanging Stranger
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Chris Lutkin
- Duración: 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
In "The Hanging Stranger", TV salesman Ed Loyce is a practical man who, when he sees something wrong, tries to correct it. Then one day he sees a lifeless body hanging in the town square. What he can't figure out is why nobody seems to care.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stranger
- De Dr. Joe de Beauchamp en 12-22-18
De: Philip K. Dick
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A Philip K. Dick Collection
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Andy Harrington
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
From the author of science-fiction classics such as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? comes a collection of 13 short stories of dystopic visions of technological terror, post-nuclear holocaust warfare, time travel, space travel, man vs. alien, man vs. machine, man becomes machine, man becomes plant, and other fantastic tales performed in a vividly dramatic narration by Andy Harrington.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unfortunately mediocre
- De Anonymous User en 03-14-23
De: Philip K. Dick
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Minority Report and Other Stories (Unabridged Stories)
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Keir Dullea
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,904
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,356
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,356
Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original, and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes "The Minority Report," "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," "Paycheck," "Second Variety," and "The Eyes Have It."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nice Collection of Four P.D.K. Short Stories
- De DailyDog en 05-12-11
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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 850
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 764
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic and current
- De Jerry Witt en 12-20-15
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Collected Works of Philip K. Dick: 11 Science Fiction Stories
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Kevin Killavey
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 254
The Collected Works of Philip K. Dick is a collection of 11 science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Stories...well read.
- De cindilla en 12-18-12
De: Philip K. Dick
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Blade Runner
- Originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,700
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9,186
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9,183
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment: find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is the original Do Androids Dream of Electric
- De D. ABIGT en 08-29-10
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Hanging Stranger
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Chris Lutkin
- Duración: 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
In "The Hanging Stranger", TV salesman Ed Loyce is a practical man who, when he sees something wrong, tries to correct it. Then one day he sees a lifeless body hanging in the town square. What he can't figure out is why nobody seems to care.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stranger
- De Dr. Joe de Beauchamp en 12-22-18
De: Philip K. Dick
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A Philip K. Dick Collection
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Andy Harrington
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
From the author of science-fiction classics such as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? comes a collection of 13 short stories of dystopic visions of technological terror, post-nuclear holocaust warfare, time travel, space travel, man vs. alien, man vs. machine, man becomes machine, man becomes plant, and other fantastic tales performed in a vividly dramatic narration by Andy Harrington.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unfortunately mediocre
- De Anonymous User en 03-14-23
De: Philip K. Dick
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Minority Report and Other Stories (Unabridged Stories)
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Keir Dullea
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,904
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,356
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,356
Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original, and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes "The Minority Report," "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," "Paycheck," "Second Variety," and "The Eyes Have It."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nice Collection of Four P.D.K. Short Stories
- De DailyDog en 05-12-11
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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 850
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 764
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic and current
- De Jerry Witt en 12-20-15
De: Philip K. Dick
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A Scanner Darkly
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Paul Giamatti
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,425
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,888
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,880
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Drugs are bad
- De Randall en 04-25-09
De: Philip K. Dick
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby, Luke Daniels, Peter Berkrot, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 340
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 341
Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than 100 short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects 10 of the best. In "Autofac," Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. "Exhibit Piece" and "The Commuter" feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Liked most of the stories
- De F. Delaney en 08-24-18
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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 307
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic stories!
- De Renee Tang en 04-18-17
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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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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4 out of 5 stars
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The Pistol to the Head
- De Darwin8u en 01-02-17
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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 840
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 718
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 715
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Life changing
- De Michael en 03-16-16
De: Philip K. Dick
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Ubik
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,846
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,307
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,305
Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in "half-life," a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Holy sh*t
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-17
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Doomed City
- De: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Andrew Bromfield - Translator
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 17 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 183
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, yet the novel they worked hardest on, the one that was their own favorite and that listeners worldwide have acclaimed their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatskys kept its existence a secret even from their closest friends for 16 years. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De Mr. Sparkle en 03-15-18
De: Arkady Strugatsky, y otros
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I Am Legend
- De: Richard Matheson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 15,089
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,943
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11,944
In I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and those unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Everyone else has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he stalks the sleeping undead, by night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Superb!
- De Steven Casper en 01-24-08
De: Richard Matheson
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The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
- De: Arthur C. Clarke
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister, Ray Porter, Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 51 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,560
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,350
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,345
From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre", through classic stories including "The Star", "Earthlight", "The Nine Billion Names of God", and "The Sentinel" (kernel of the later novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The Hammer of God", this comprehensive short story collection encapsulates one of the great science fiction careers of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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List of stories from
- De KW Charlie en 09-15-16
De: Arthur C. Clarke
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Metro 2033
- De: Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Narrado por: Rupert Degas
- Duración: 20 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,939
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,093
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,078
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct and the half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind, but the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on Earth....
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4 out of 5 stars
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If you plan on buying this book because of the game, consider something else.
- De Tyler Dullum en 11-01-15
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Solaris
- The Definitive Edition
- De: Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston - translator
- Narrado por: Alessandro Juliani
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,348
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,609
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,625
At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani ( Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A comment on negative reviews
- De Burns en 09-20-11
De: Stanislaw Lem, y otros
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Steelheart
- The Reckoners, Book 1
- De: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38,016
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34,531
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34,565
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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He got the idea from a near traffic accident
- De Don Gilbert en 09-26-13
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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The Skull
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
A man is given the chance to get out of jail, but he must travel back in time and kill a man who has changed the world. His only clue to the identity of this individual is a skull. The man's skull is 200 years old. What if?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great old-school sci-fi short story
- De Nothing really matters en 10-02-14
De: Philip K. Dick
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Adjustment Team
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Society runs smoothly because a secret team adjusts it, stepping in occasionally to bring about changes by adjusting people and their attitudes unbeknownst to them. As you can imagine timing is of the utmost importance, because if one individual is not adjusted, that sets the whole thing out of balance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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short story intro to PKD's mind
- De theangryMD en 02-10-19
De: Philip K. Dick
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Mr. Spaceship
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 15
We talk to our cars, and our computers; how about a spaceship which is powered by a human brain. In this short story by Philip K Dick, researchers find the ideal candidate, Kramer's old professor, a dying man who volunteers to donate his brain to the project.
De: Philip K. Dick
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Upon the Dull Earth
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 55 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
"Who is Sylvia? What is she?" In this little novella by Philip K Dick, we meet Sylvia. But wait until Sylvia meets Sylvia.
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Variable Man
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 2 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
Thomas Cole, the variable man, is not himself variable, but when he is transported from the early 20th century into the 22nd century, he becomes a variable affecting the outcome of an interplanetary war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's a classic, reflective of its time
- De Cat en 05-06-15
De: Philip K. Dick
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Piper in the Woods
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 11
A garrison on asteroid Y-3, a beautiful place actually. First published in 1953 by Philip K. Dick, this science fiction short story proposes that if you're overworked, become a plant, and that is just what the personnel on asteroid Y-3 are doing. The problem becomes how does Dr. Henry Harris who has been sent to resolve the problem avoided becoming one of them and taking root?
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Skull
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
A man is given the chance to get out of jail, but he must travel back in time and kill a man who has changed the world. His only clue to the identity of this individual is a skull. The man's skull is 200 years old. What if?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great old-school sci-fi short story
- De Nothing really matters en 10-02-14
De: Philip K. Dick
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Adjustment Team
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Society runs smoothly because a secret team adjusts it, stepping in occasionally to bring about changes by adjusting people and their attitudes unbeknownst to them. As you can imagine timing is of the utmost importance, because if one individual is not adjusted, that sets the whole thing out of balance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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short story intro to PKD's mind
- De theangryMD en 02-10-19
De: Philip K. Dick
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Mr. Spaceship
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 15
We talk to our cars, and our computers; how about a spaceship which is powered by a human brain. In this short story by Philip K Dick, researchers find the ideal candidate, Kramer's old professor, a dying man who volunteers to donate his brain to the project.
De: Philip K. Dick
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Upon the Dull Earth
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 55 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 10
"Who is Sylvia? What is she?" In this little novella by Philip K Dick, we meet Sylvia. But wait until Sylvia meets Sylvia.
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Variable Man
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 2 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
Thomas Cole, the variable man, is not himself variable, but when he is transported from the early 20th century into the 22nd century, he becomes a variable affecting the outcome of an interplanetary war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's a classic, reflective of its time
- De Cat en 05-06-15
De: Philip K. Dick
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Piper in the Woods
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 11
A garrison on asteroid Y-3, a beautiful place actually. First published in 1953 by Philip K. Dick, this science fiction short story proposes that if you're overworked, become a plant, and that is just what the personnel on asteroid Y-3 are doing. The problem becomes how does Dr. Henry Harris who has been sent to resolve the problem avoided becoming one of them and taking root?
De: Philip K. Dick
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Second Variety
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Nils J. Rasmussen
- 05-31-15
Really Fun Story -BUT- You Can See The End Coming
Any additional comments?
As you can see from the title of my review, the twist ending become pretty obvious about halfway through the story.
That might ruin the experience for a lot of people, but I enjoyed the short story nonetheless. Philip K Dick is, for the MOST part, a pretty reliable author. You know what to expect from him before you start. He has absolutely amazing ideas behind nearly all of his writings, which I think is his main appeal. PKD isn't as much an author that really does a ton of character development. People read his work because of the totally original and strange places and scenarios that he brings his readers.
I still enjoyed this story a lot. :)
8.12 / 10.00
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- Aaron
- 12-16-13
Not Bad. Not bad at all.
Terminator - 1st generation (second edition?).
I always appreciate seeing where a successful idea originated.
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- Robert A. Lime
- 05-25-14
Classic Philip K Dick
What was one of the most memorable moments of Second Variety?
Nice surprise ending
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Better than most PKD short stories. Another well done vision of a dystopiac, post-nuclear holocaust world. The ending was slightly predictable, but good nonetheless.
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- Justin G
- 02-27-25
Interesting Premise, Awful Narration
The title basically says everything. The premise wasn’t bad, not PKDs best not his worst. But the narrator, good god man… I don’t know where to begin in describing how bad this guy is, he’s bad all over lol. Why does he whisper 50% of book for no reason? Stuff like that. Just my opinion though, take with a large grain of salt, or many grains of salt, whichever you prefer : )
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