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Eye in the Sky
by Philip K. Dick
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.
Year: 1957
Genre: Alternate Reality, Dystopian
Time Out of Joint
by Philip K. Dick
Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. He enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that's what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet he's never heard of named Marilyn Monroe. When Ragle skips town to try to find the cause of these bizarre occurrences, his discovery could make him question everything he has ever known.
Year: 1959
Genre: Alternate Reality
Valis
by Philip K. Dick
What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick's ground-breaking novel, and the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy, or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.
Year: 1981
Genre: Alternate Reality
Titles
| Want It | Got It | Read It | Year | Title | |||||||
 | | | 1957 | Eye in the Sky | by Philip K. Dick | Alternate Reality, Dystopian | |||||
| | | 1959 | Time Out of Joint | by Philip K. Dick | Alternate Reality | |||||
| | | 1981 | Valis | by Philip K. Dick | Alternate Reality, VALIS Trilogy | |||||
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