Philip K. Dick has 55 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 32 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 596 ratings. The most-rated is Blade Runner.
Solar Lottery
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In 2203 anyone can become the ruler of the solar system. There are no elections, no interviews, no prerequisites whatsoever - it all comes down to the random turns of a giant wheel. But when a new Quizmaster takes over, the old one still keeps some rights, namely the right to hire an unending stream of assassins to attempt to kill the new leader. In the wake of the most recent change in leadership, employees of the former ruler scurry to find an assassin who can get past telepathic guards. But when one employee switches sides, troubling facts about the lottery system come to light, and it just might not be possible for anyone to win.
©2012 Philip K. Dick (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
HorrorBabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Collection, Volume III
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This collection comprises stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From Allen's "The Arctic Death", through to Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", Stoker's "Dracula's Guest", and beyond. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable. Contents: "The Arctic Death" (W. Allen) "Caterpillars" (E. F. Benson) "The Willows" (A. Blackwood) "Vale of the Corbies" (A. J. Burks) "The Repairer of Reputations" (R. W. Chambers) "The Gray Rider" (C. H. Craig) "The Nightmare Road" (F. Crow) "Beyond the Door" (P. K. Dick) "An Unnatural Feud" (N. Douglas) "The Witch in the Fog" (A. Faust) "The Fourth Dimension" (C. Ford) "The Ring" (J. M. Fry) "Special News Bulletin" (V. Gaddis) "Cleanup on Aisle 22" (I. Gordon) "Pockets" (I. Gordon) "Letters from the Village" (I. Gordon) "August Heat" (W. F. Harvey) "Graves and Goblins" (N. Hawthorne) "The Children of the Night" (R. E. Howard) "The Fearsome Touch of Death" (R. E. Howard) "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" (R. E. Howard) "The Thing in the Cellar" (D. H. Keller) "Bells of Horror" (H. Kuttner) "The Salem Horror" (H. Kuttner) "Demons of the Film Colony" (T. LeBerthon) "The Black, Dead Thing" (F. B. Long) "The Last Test" (H. P. Lovecraft) "The Lurking Fear" (H. P. Lovecraft) "Two Black Bottles" (H. P. Lovecraft) "The Devil" (G. d. Maupassant) "The Terror" (G. d. Maupassant) "The Cask of Amontillado" (E. A. Poe) "The Tell-Tale Heart" (E. A. Poe) "The Paradise of the Ice Wilderness" (J. Regis) "Hey, You Down There!" (H. Rolseth) "Dracula's Guest" (B. Stoker) "The Shadow on the Moor" (S. Strauss) "The Gong Ringers" (H. Vokine) "The Tree-Men of M'Bwa" (D. Wandrei) "The Red Room" (H. G. Wells)
©2020 Ian Gordon (P)2020 Ian Gordon
The World Jones Made
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Precognition; a world ruled by Relativism; giant alien jellyfish. The World Jones Made is a classic Philip K. Dick mash-up, taking deep philosophical musings and infusing them with wild action. Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortuneteller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may be able to free society from its paralyzing Relativism. If, that is, he can avoid the radioactively unstable government hit man on his tail.
©2012 Philip K. Dick (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Game-Players of Titan
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Years ago, Earth and Titan fought a war and Earth lost. The planet was irradiated and most of the surviving population is sterile. The few survivors play an intricate and unending game called Bluff at the behest of the sluglike aliens who rule the planet. At stake in the game are two very important commodities: land and spouses. Pete Garden just lost his wife and Berkeley, California, but he has a plan to win them back. That is, if he isn’t derailed by aliens, psychic traitors, or his new wife. The Game-Players of Titan is both satire and adventure, examining the ties that bind people together and the maddening peccadilloes of bureaucracy, whether the bureaucrats are humans or aliens.
©1991 Laura Coehlo, Christopher Dick, Isa Hackett (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Counter-Clock World
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In Counter-Clock World, time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye", blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first - but their motives are not exactly benevolent, because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave. What would you do if your long-dead relatives started coming back? Who would take care of them? And what if they preferred being dead? In Counter-Clock World, one of Dick’s most theological and philosophical novels, these troubling questions are addressed; though, as always, you may have to figure out the answers yourself.
©1967 Philip K. Dick (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Vulcan's Hammer
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After the 20th century’s devastating series of wars, the world’s governments banded together into one globe-spanning entity, committed to peace at all costs. Ensuring that peace is the Vulcan supercomputer, responsible for all major decisions. But some people don’t like being taken out of the equation. And others resent the idea that the Vulcan is taking the place of God. As the world grows ever closer to all-out war, one functionary frantically tries to prevent it. But the Vulcan computer has its own plans, plans that might not include humanity at all.
©1960 Philip K. Dick (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Crack in Space
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When a repairman accidentally discovers a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace? Or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world?
©1994 Laura Coelho, Christopher Dick, and Isa Hackett (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
La svastica sul sole
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Le forze dell'Asse hanno vinto la seconda guerra mondiale e l'America è divisa in due parti, l'una asservita al Reich, l'altra ai Giapponesi. Sul resto del mondo incombe una realtà da incubo: il credo della superiorità razziale ariana è dilagato a tal punto da togliere ogni volontà o possibilità di riscatto. L'Africa è ridotta a un deserto, vittima di una soluzione radicale di sterminio, mentre in Europa l'Italia ha preso le briciole e i nazisti dalle loro rampe di lancio si preparano a inviare razzi su Marte e bombe atomiche sul Giappone. Sulla costa occidentale degli Stati Uniti, i Giapponesi sono ossessionati dagli oggetti del folclore e della cultura americana, e tutto sembra ruotare intorno a due libri: il millenario I Ching, l'oracolo della saggezza cinese, e il best-seller del momento, vietato in tutti i paesi del Reich, un testo secondo il quale l'Asse sarebbe stato in realtà sconfitto dagli Alleati. "La svastica sul sole" racconta la storia e le sue possibilità, la realtà e le riscritture, lo scontro culturale tra Oriente e Occidente, l'invasione della spiritualità nella vita quotidiana, il dramma morale di chi deve sopravvivere in un regime di sottomissione. Scritto nel 1961, è uno dei capolavori di Philip K. Dick, vincitore nel 1963 del Premio Hugo.
©2008 Fanucci Editore (P)2015 Simplify Digital Entertainment
Eye in the Sky
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When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy. Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic, and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious takedowns. Eye in the Sky blends the thrills and the jokes to craft a startling morality lesson hidden inside a comedy.
©1957, 1985 A. A. Wyn, Inc (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Paycheck
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Electronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life, except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction. Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of seemingly worthless objects: a code key, a ticket stub, a receipt, a length of wire, half a poker chip, a piece of green cloth, and a bus token. But when he is confronted by the Special Police, who seem to be investigating Retherick for their own reasons, Jennings finds himself running for his life, realizing that the "worthless" objects are the key to unlocking his recent past, and ensuring that he has a future.
©1987 The Estate of Philip K. Dick; 2003 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc. (P)2001 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc.
Total Recall
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Philip K. Dick’s classic short story tells the story of Douglas Quail, an unfulfilled bureaucrat who dreams of visiting Mars, but can't afford the trip. Luckily, there is Rekal Incorporated, a company that lets everyday stiffs believe they’ve been on incredible adventures. The only problem is that when technicians attempt a memory implant of a spy mission to Mars, they find that real memories of just such a trip are already in Quail's brain. Suddenly, Quail is running for his life from government agents, but his memories might make him more of a liability than he is worth.
©2012 Laura Coelho, Christopher Dick, and Isa Hackett (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Simulacra
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On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien. In classic Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.
©1992 Laura Coelho, Christopher Dick, and Isa Hackett (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Philip K. Dick: Selected Sci-Fi Stories
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Philip K. Dick was an award-winning giant of American science fiction, right up there with Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov. He became the first science fiction writer ever to be included in The Library of America series. Although he died fairly young at 53, he created many incredible sci-fi stories - 44 published novels and over 120 short stories! These 14 selections represent some of his most imaginative work. Included in this collection are: "Adjustment Team", "The Golden Man", "A World of Talent", "The Last of the Masters", "The Crystal Crypt", "The Eyes Have It", "Survey Team", "The Hanging Stranger", "The Defenders", "Breakfast at Twilight", "The Skull", "Tony and the Beetles", "Piper in the Woods", and "Beyond Lies the Wub".
Public Domain (P)2021 Jimcin Recordings
Now Wait for Last Year
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Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader is perpetually on the verge of death. And on top of that, a new drug has just entered circulation - a drug that haphazardly sends its users traveling through time. In an attempt to escape his doomed marriage, Dr. Eric Sweetscent becomes caught up in all of it. But he has questions: Is Earth on the right side of the war? Is he supposed to heal Earth’s leader or keep him sick? And can he change the harrowing future that the drug has shown him?
©1966 Philip K. Dick (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Radio Free Albemuth
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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.
©1985 The estate of Philip K. Dick. (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.