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Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.

Classic tale of artificial worlds from the author of "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" (aka "Blade Runner").

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes "Valis and "The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress--and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ.

In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary.

Counter-Clock World" is one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick's books. The world has entered the Hobart Phase--a sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. In cemeteries all across the land, the dead are coming back to life, and one of those dead is Anarch Peak, a charismatic religious leader whose followers flourished long after his demise.

What Kafka was to the first half of the twentieth century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half."-Art Spiegelman, author of MAUS Philip K. Dick was both our most brilliant science fiction writer and a visionary philosopher who chose to couch his speculations in fiction. For, as he wrote about androids and virtual reality, schizophrenic prophets and amnesiac gods, Dick was also posing fundamental questions: What is reality? What is sanity? And ...

A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures.