(0)Catalog Search Results
A powerful and enigmatic alien recruits humans and aliens to help it restore a sunken cathedral in this touching and hilarious novel.
Sometimes even gods need help. In Galactic Pot-Healer that god is an alien creature known as The Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy to Plowman's Planet. Joe Fernwright...On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape...
Time travel, interplanetary war, technology races between enemy nations—this early novella from science fiction mastermind Philip K. Dick has something for every fan of the genre. In the story, an increasingly heated conflict between two outer-space civilizations is impacted by an unlikely figure—the time-traveling 'variable man' of the tale's title.
9) The Skull
Travel backward and forward in time—literally—in this thought-provoking tale from science fiction master Philip K. Dick. A prisoner is given the opportunity to regain his freedom if he accepts a dangerous mission that could change the course of history. He accepts—but has no idea how profound the consequences of his decision will be.
TV repairman Ed Loyce sets out for what he thinks will be a typical day at work—and finds himself in a world in which everything has been turned topsy-turvy. The first indication that things are amiss occurs when Loyce spies a stomach-turning abomination in the town park—and none of his fellow citizens seem to care. Find out what's gone wrong by reading this chilling short story from master of the weird Philip K. Dick.
Under extreme duress, the human mind can come up with an array of impossibly complex coping mechanisms. Is that what's behind the strange epidemic that army physician Henry Harris has noticed overtaking soldiers who have returned from the distant celestial body known as Asteroid Y-3? Harris makes a trip to the asteroid to figure things out—and seems to fall prey to the 'delusion' himself. Fans of Philip K. Dick's unique brand of suspenseful
...Far in the future, Earth's empire has grown to include dozens of different civilizations, many of which have been subjugated to serve humanity's growing need for cheap labor. In the short story "Tony and the Beetles," a young boy hatches an unlikely friendship with some of the insect-like creatures that are treated as slaves—and sets off a firestorm of unintended consequences in the process.
Beyond Lies the Wub was the first story ever published by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. In this short story Peterson buys a "wub" from a local before his departure from Mars and takes it back aboard the ship on which he is a crew member. But the captain Franco cites his concerns about the extra weight of having this huge pig-like creature on-board, although he really seems more interested in how it might taste. Once in space however,
...14) The Gun
Take an intergalactic trip with renowned science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. In The Gun, the crew of a spaceship are sent out to recover a remarkable weapon that seems to be capable of causing nearly inconceivable levels of damage. How will they protect humanity from the deadly device?
15) The Defenders
Prolific science fiction writer Philip K. Dick penned hundreds of short stories, novels, and other pieces over the course of his career. The Defenders is a short but spellbinding tale that imagines a dystopian version of America in which the Cold War dispute with the Soviet Union has been fought to a devastating conclusion.
THE UNRECONSTRUCTED M
SALES PITCH
SHELL GAME
BREAKFAST AT TWILIGHT
ADJUSTMENT TEAM
FOSTER, YOU'RE DEAD
THE CRAWLERS
THE GOLDEN MAN
THE LAST OF THE MASTERS
THE TURNING WHEEL
UPON THE DULL EARTH
HUMAN IS
MEDDLER
If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook
...17) Dr. Futurity
From the author of Solar Lottery, in a future where death is embraced, a time-traveling doctor is the only one who can save a wounded resistance leader.
When Dr. Jim Parsons wakes up from a car accident, he finds himself in a future populated almost entirely by the young. But to keep the world run by the young, death is fetishized, and those who survive to old age are put down. In such a world, Parsons—with
...Here is a selection of 18 jaunts through time, many of them rare tales from the pulps that we know you haven't read before. Even if you're jaded with time-travel (Dinosaurs? Again?) you'll find something new in these pages. Included are:
THE CHILDREN'S ROOM, by Raymond F. Jones
SIDETRACK IN TIME, by William P. McGivern
GEORGE ALL THE WAY, by Richard Wilson
ABSOLUTELY NO PARADOX, by Lester del Rey
THE HOHOKAM DIG, by Theodore Pratt
GUARANTEED
...The discovery of mysterious gateway leads to a new world full of dangerous possibilities in this science fiction tale from an iconic author.
When a repairman accidentally finds 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
...In Marina
Didn't find what you need? Items that were published more than six months ago and which are not owned by AACPL can be requested from other Marina libraries in Maryland.
Didn't find a newly published title?
Looking for a title that was published in the past six months? You can submit a purchase suggestion. Please do not submit purchase suggestions for titles that have not yet been published. Submit Request