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Step into the mind-bending worlds of The Selected Works of Philip K. Dick, a powerful collection of classic science-fiction stories from one of the genre’s most influential visionaries, Philip K. Dick. This expertly curated volume showcases Dick at his sharpest—probing the fragile boundaries between reality and illusion, power and freedom, humanity and the unknown.

Set in a future that grows more plausible by the day, Stranger Beauty asks what traces will remain after a life has ended. There are novels that describe consciousness and novels that enact it. Stranger Beauty is of the latter. With its narrative spun out of three notebooks, an embedded screenplay, and a final monologue delivered by an AI that has legally consumed a dead man's life's work, Matthew Gasda's formally daring prose carries a powerful emotional resonance. The architecture of the novel is not a stunt.

Iago is an accomplished young Operator, harvesting corn in the name of the Collective – a hi-tech orphanage thousands of miles from civilization. After a chance encounter with Javier and Kraken – a pair of wayward boys who have escaped a brutal prison known as the Village – Iago is beginning to question his reality. Now, he must survive the cruelties of the Protocol, and discover the terrible secrets of the Collective: a long-dead trillionaire with a grim warning, a super-mind that controls fate, and a plague that kills only men.

16-year-old Evelyn awakens from a coma to find herself imprisoned in a medical robotics research facility, sanctioned by the government. Newly orphaned, and horribly disfigured from a car accident, Evelyn finds herself ensnared in a dangerous game between a narcissistic CEO and a brilliant surgeon. In order to survive, she is forced to ignore her own moral compass, and recruit the homeless for deadly experiments where humans are merged with artificial intelligence, all for the "good" of mankind.