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Book Description
A few years from now the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn't seem possible, does it? Welcome to the world of Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist. Philip K. Dick tells a story of desperate love, lethal Continue
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- English Books
- Paperback 320 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0575074604
- ISBN-13: 9780575074606
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Pub date: Sep 09, 2004
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Audio CD, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780575074606 | Paperback | $12.86 | $9.29 | The Book Depository |
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Cocciaroberto 
This book was unique in the Philip K Dick novels that I’ve read so far in that it actually made more sense the more I read. An incredibly complicated 21st century society had been envisioned, and it took awhile to try and grasp what was going on. There was an immortal woman first lady, who had been ... (continue)
This book was unique in the Philip K Dick novels that I’ve read so far in that it actually made more sense the more I read. An incredibly complicated 21st century society had been envisioned, and it took awhile to try and grasp what was going on. There was an immortal woman first lady, who had been ruling for 100 years, while the citizens of Europe and American voted her a “husband”. The civilisation had invented time travel, and a machine that allowed people to view possible futures. There were people colonising mars, and people using robotic, empathic fake Martians (based on the fossilised record) to get people to emigrate. There were totalitarian apartment complexes, record company executives, Nazi’s brought back from the dead and people giving birth to Neanderthals. It was very strange, but also very compelling. Not everything was explained and at the end of the book society was in a more confused state than at the beginning. Yet despite all, or rather because of it, I found that I enjoyed it lots. Definitely one I’d recommend for weirdness value. I shall continue buying all the Philip K Dick I come across, clearly he’s an author I’ve not read enough of.
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