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Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)

I don`t think that it`s really nessessary to place all usual information such as biography and bibliography of the author here. Instead I`d like to place here the information concerning the Russian editions of Philip K. Dick books. As for biography and bibliography you can find them visiting other great sites dedicated to Philip K. Dick. There is quite a few very interesting sites concerning Philip K. Dick in the net.

Books by PKD produced in Russia Comments on translation

But first I would like to say a work about some traditions of Russian publishing business. In Russia about 99% of books (at least SF books) are hardback. I`ve never seen any PKD book, for instance, that was paperback (at least have not seen up to date) so all the books listed below are hardback. Another thing is, 99% of our books contain more than one single novel of the author chosen. usually we have two-three novels in one edition or a couple of novels and a few short stories or several novellae and short stories or whatever like that. So, don`t be surprised that I`ll list several titles in one book.I listed here all books that I know, it`s not exactly the full list.

There is yet another thing about this page. The content of "Russian version" and this version do not even get close. 90% of Russian internet users don`t read English, that`s why the "Russian version" of the page contains usual information like PKD biography and so on. Mostly that information is translated by me from other English language sites concerning PKD.

List of books by PKD that were translated and published in Russia:
(in no particular order)


UBIK ("Osiris" series, "Tsentrpoligraph" Publishing House, Moscow, 1993)
This book includes three novels:
The Game Players of Titan
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich
Ubik

 

 

 


Time out of Joint ("Kultura" Publishing House, "Titul" company, Moscow 1993)
Includes two novels and a few short stories:
Time Out of Joint
Ubik
War Game
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Beyond Lies the Wub
Foster, You are Dead!

 

 

Dr. Bloodmoney("Osiris" series, "Tsentrpoligraph" Publishing House, Moscow, 1996)
Includes three novels:
The Man Who Japed
Dr. Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After the Bomb
Our Friends From Frolix 8

 

 

 

 


The Cosmic Puppets ("Parallel" Company, Novgorod 1994)
Includes three novels and a short story:
Clans of the Alphane Moon
The Game Players of Titan
The Cosmic Puppets
Second Variety

 

 

 

 


Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ("Osiris" series, "Tsentrpoligraph" Publishing House, Moscow, 1992)
Includes three novels:
Solar Lottery
The Man in the High Castle
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

 

 

 

 


The Simulacra ("Azbuka" Publishing House, Saint-Petersbourg, 1996)
Includes three novels:
The World Jones Made
Time Out of Joint
The Simulacra

 

 

 

 


The Game Players of Titan
I don`t have any further information about the content of this book, sorry.

 

 

 

 

 


Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ("Joker" series, "Ripol" Moscow, 1992)
It includes two novels, one by PKD and the other by Robert Silverberg Recalled to Life.

 

 

 

 

 


Now Wait For the Last Year
I don`t have any further information an this book, sorry. I was told it`s a very rare edition.

 

 

 

 

 


The Man in the High Castle ("Lenizdat" Publishing House, Saint-Petersbourg, 1992)
Includes: The Man In the High Castle,
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich,
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

 

 

 

 


Galactic Pot-Healer ("Osiris" series, "Tsentrpoligraph" Publishing House, Moscow, 1996)
Includes three novels:
Eye in the Sky
Galactic Pot-Healer
We Can Build You
Contains no illustraitions.

 

 

 


Do Adroids Dream of Electric Sheep? ("Golden Pen Club" series, "Tropikal" Publishing House, Moscow, 1992)
Includes three novels and a short story:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Man in the Heigh Castle
Ubik
The Infinites

 

 

 

 


The Penultimate Truth ("Kannon" and "Kibor" Companies, Kiev, 1992)
Includes three novels:
The Penultimate Truth
The Game Players of Titan
The Zap Gun

 

 

 


A Maze of Death ("Rossiisky Zapad" Company, Kaliningrad, 1993)
Includes three novels and two short stories:
Do Androind Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Game Players of Titan
A Maze of Death
Small Town
Beyond Lies the Wub
as well as a short article Philip Dick - the Electric Shepherd. Contains no illustrations.

 

 

 


A Maze of Death ("Severo-Zapad" Publishing House, Saint-Petersbourg, 1997)
Includes two novels, a novella and a short story:
Martian Time-Slip
A Maze of Death
The Faith of Our Fathers
The Preserving Machine

 

 

 

 


The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich ("Severo-Zapad" Publishing House, Saint-Petersbourg, 1997)
Includes two novels:
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich
Ubik
That is a new series of books. There are only two issues so far, the same design consept, different covers, I don`t have the second one, sorry. The second book also includes two novels Martian Time Slip and Time Out of JointBy the way, if you note the cover picture it looks more like an illustration to Dr. Bloodmany than to any novel this book contains.
Sadly, the publishing house collapsed during the 1997 economical crisis, so they discontinued the series.

 

 


The King of the Elves ("Joker" series "Ripol" Publishing House, Moscow, 1992)
A collection of short stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vulcan`s Hammer ("Alterpres" Company, Kiev, 1994)
Includes two novels, a few novellae and short stories:
Clans of the Alphane Moon
Vulcan`s Hammer
The Faith of Our Fathers
Second Variety
Last Master

 

 

 

UBIK ("OverSun" series, TERRA FANTASTICA Publishing House, Saint-Petersbourg 1992
The book includes only one novel.
It is a kind of a souvenir edition for a real Dickhead. It includes original translation of Ubik by quite famous Russian SF writer Andrey Lazartchuk as well as a short foreword, plus a great article on the author with bibliography and comments on almost every book mentioned in that bibliography. PLUS a terrific interview with PKD conducted in 1980 by Charles Platt and published in Dream Makers: The Uncommon People Who Write Science Fiction

 

 

 

Faith of Our Fathers ("Neva" Publishing House, Saint-Petersbourg 2000)
The book includes new translations of Galactic Pot-Healer and Our Friend From Frolix-8 besides the title novella. Hardback pocketbook.

 

 

 

 

The Man in the High Castle (AST Publishing House, Moscow, 2001)
The book includes the only novel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (AST Publishing House, Moscow, 2001)
The book includes the only novel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dick, Pournelle double ("Navuka i Teknika", Minsk, 1994)
The book includes: Second Variety, Solar Lottery, The Golden Man, Shell Game and Escape from the Planet of the Apes by Pournelle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Galactic Pot-Healer ("Amfora" Publishing House, Saint-Petersbourg 2000)
The book includes new translations of Galactic Pot-Healer and Our Friend From Frolix-8. Hardback.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Radio Free Albermuth (AST Publishing House, Moscow 2002, New Wave series)
The book includes The only existing translation of the novel. Hardback.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preserving Machine ("Amfora" Publishing House, Saint-Petersbourg 2002)
Short stories collection. The book includes 14 short stories. Hardback.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments on Russian translations of PKD books:

Well, what to say about the translations... Sometimes they are just fine but sometimes I would have to barely guess what book I`m reading because the titles of the books are translated... well, not even close to the original. For instance, The Man Who Japed was translated as The Head on a Plate, Now Wait for the Last Year became The Time Drug and The Simulacra in Russian translation became Something Like That. We Can Build You became The Toy Named "Life", I have read Our Friends From Frolix 8 as The God`s Best Friend and Dr. Bloodmoney... - as With Death In My Pocket. There are five different titles for Beyond Lies the Wub because nobody over here really knows how to pronounce Wub. There are also several versions of We Can Remember... just because the word "wholesale" doesn`t exist in Russian language as one word. Someone even translated it as Out of the Deep Corners of Memory just not to mess with that "wholesale" thing. I`m not even mentioning that in the SF Encyclopaedia they made a mistake in PKD`s name - Philip is spelled with two p. Well, I`ve mentioned it now.