VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)
By: Philip K. Dick
3.44
Format: 220 pages,
VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The …
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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
By: William Gibson
3.89
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more
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"Boy, I was daid."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Things aren't different. Things are things."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
3. Down to Earth (Cosmic Trigger #2)
By: Robert Anton Wilson , Christopher S. Hyatt
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
While this, the second volume of the Cosmic Trigger trilogy, continues along the path set by the or… read more
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"Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history."-Robert Anton Wilson, Down to Earth (Cosmic Trigger #2)
4. Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
By: Robert Anton Wilson
4.26
Format: 308 pages, Pocket Book
"Cosmic Trigger" deals with a process of deliberately induced brain change... This is called "initi… read more
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"belief is the death of intelligence."-Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
"...reality is always plural and mutable."-Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
"...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. "-Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
"...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable."-Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
5. The Illuminatus! Trilogy
By: Robert Anton Wilson , Robert Shea
2.62
Format: 224 pages,
It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about … read more
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6. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)
By: Philip K. Dick
3.44
Format: 220 pages,
VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more
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7. Prometheus Rising
By: Israel Regardie , Robert Anton Wilson
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Imagine trying to make sense of an amalgam of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I. Gur… read more
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8. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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9. The Fifth Head of Cerberus
By: Gene Wolfe
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberusis a… read more
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10. Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
By: Lawrence Sutin
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Divine Invasions is the definitive biography of one of America's greatest novelists and science fic… read more
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11. The Book of Lies
By: Aleister Crowley
3.82
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
The Book of Lies (full title: Which is also Falsely Called BREAKS. The Wanderings or Falsifications… read more
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"Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations"-Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies
"Cynicism is a great cure for over-study. There is a great deal of cynicism in this book, in one place and another. It should be regarded as Angostura Bitters, to brighten the flavour of a discourse w…"-Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies
12. Radix (Radix, #1)
By: A.A. Attanasio
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is the story of a young man's odyssey of self-discovery, from dangerous adolescent to warrior,… read more
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13. Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
By: Robert Anton Wilson
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Take a quantum leap into the universe of Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy. It's a wise and wacky look at o… read more
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14. Lord of Light
By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more
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15. Star Maker
By: Olaf Stapledon
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Star Makeris a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a his… read more
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16. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling
4.06
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more
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"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
17. The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
By: Barry Kirwan
4.23
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable… read more
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"People rarely search for bodies in ceilings…"-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
"It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? "-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
"Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure."-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
"Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne"-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
18. The Polymorph
By: Max Nowaz
4.29
Format: None pages, ebook
Arbitrator, Jim Brown is returning to Earth after completing a successful mission to put down a rev… read more
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"One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire." "And you? What are your plans?" "I have no plans to kill your father."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you ca…"-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
19. The Last Sunset
By: March Lions
4.34
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother di… read more
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"Trust is a strange bedfellow."-March Lions, The Last Sunset
"I don't want to be caught with my pants down."-March Lions, The Last Sunset
"He sounds like a politician running for office."-March Lions, The Last Sunset
"The truth has a way of coming out of the closet."-March Lions, The Last Sunset
20. Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel
By: Todor Bombov
4.37
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
2nd Book in Sci-Fi Series Is Set on Saturn’s Moon Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui … read more
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"While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’"-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel
"Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you woul…"-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel
21. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
By: Erik Davis
4.22
Format: 545 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Te… read more
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"Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The Medium is the Massage, an audio collage inspired by the resonating global echo cham…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"By refusing randomness and unpredictability, conspiracy theories and paranoid reality tunnels reify the hubris of systematic rationality as such. “Maybe all systems—that is, any theoretical, verbal, …"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"The technological audacity of the Apollo program, with it's largely symbolic payload, was also sinking into the trivialisation that Guy Debord had identified the decade before as the underside of med…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
