Disorientation ensues, but it’s slowly followed by brain damage. Once one takes Substance D, it slowly begins annihilating the links that exist between the two hemispheres of the brain. The streets of Los Angeles do not know a more addictive and more toxic drug, and even less so one that has such dire consequences.

Practically none of the other toxic drugs comes even close to substance D. Substance D earned its more frequent name Death. A Scanner Darkly is a novel that was published in the year of 1977, spanning two-hundred or so pages. The catch, however, is that the androids in question are the most highly developed ones yet.Ī Scanner Darkly is among the best-selling Philip books and one of the few that gets our recommendation right off the bat. That is why Deckard gets the honors to finish the duty. Holden succeeded in retiring only two of them but was lasered in the back, so that he can’t do his work for the moment. Man Against MachineĪs Deckard makes his way towards work, his boss, a man named Harry Bryant, informs him that another man in the same line of work, Dave Holden, suffered injuries in a battle against some eight outlaw androids. The events of the book all happen in the year of 2021, so one can appreciate the timeliness of it all. In a world where humans have no choice but to care for the animals to prevent mass extinction, and where androids are slaves who, after murdering their masters, make their escape to earth. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who has seemingly awoken to a world racked by catastrophe by means of a nuclear war. The cyberpunk novel was published in the year of 1968. Dick’s best book of all time, but we are liable to change our minds. We would go so far as to name the book as being Philip K. Dick books are.ĭo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is one of the most popular Philip K. With that said, let’s see what the best Philip K. It was in 1940 that Philip had his first brush with sci-fi, reading a magazine named Stirring Science Stories and the rest is history. When Philip was five years old, Joseph wanted to move again to Reno, Nevada, because of his work, but Dorothy took a stand, and the two divorced. Philip’s family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Many of Philip’s works incorporate a kind of phantom twin. Sadly, only six weeks following her birth, Jane, Philip’s twin sister passed away. Philip’s parents were Dorothy Edgar Dick and Joseph Edgar Dick, a man that worked for the US Department of Agriculture.

The two were born a whopping six weeks prematurely. Philip was born as a twin with a sister Jane Charlotte Dick.

O Homem Duplo by Philip K. Dick