[DOWNLOAD] Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 19

Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem’s words, “wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him.”<br /><br />This <em>Library of America</em> volume brings together four of Dick’s most original novels. <em>The Man in the High Castle</em> (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying <em>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch</em> (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary drug tycoon can transform himself into a godlike figure transcending even physical death.<br /><br /><em>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</em> (1968), about a bounty hu