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    <body><![CDATA[The premise of the book, that of a shared world created by the shared fantasy of the characters, modulated by a sophisticated computer, puts me in mind of the shared reality of a role playing game.  Given that, it's easy to understand the iterations, hostility, and constant reality level crossovers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62605756">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a sci-fi book that explores the meaning of life and our attitudes towards death.  The characters in the book are all bored with their jobs and are re-assigned to Delmark-O.  Once they arrive, they struggle to figure out why they are there are terrified by all possible scenarios.  On this pla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61216460">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Billed as one of Dick's darkest novels, this book follows a group of frustrated citizens who are sent on a one-way trip to a new planet for purposes unknown.  The book explores their shifting alliances (and mental states) as they discover that they are part of a ghastly experiment, and the book's fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61058688">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[On the under side of four, but the up side of three.  A treading water Dick book. He's doing his thing.  Characters are paranoid, religion and reality are explored -- but he never hits a good stride in this one. It's a meditative sci fi book without a good character grab.  Also, a bit of a trick end...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59152931">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Standard&quot; weird Philip K Dick. A group of people are called together through the power of prayers sent to God, whose existence has been proven, and all shipped off to a colony. The purpose of the colony is unknown. Then people start dying. A good meditation on religion and identity as onl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54413240">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Having enjoyed 5 previous PKD books, I was looking forward to it, but what a let down.<br/>A brilliant premise 13 people trapped on a planet and slowly being killed off is ruined by rubbish characters,lack of tension and a load of religious philosophy that was pro christian and very dull and quite ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54493762">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned SO much from this book! Like how Dick couldn't write a good sentence to save his life. The ruinous aesthetics of failure. Apparently this book was the idea behind <em>Lost</em>, which goes a long way to providing a critical genealogy of that show's particular brand of craptastic.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Typical messy PKD... dodgy writing but worth it for the ideas and the hapless situations his characters get embroiled in. He's covered this territory in earlier book, but still, worth reading.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not his best. I'd never heard of it, but it is in the American Library volume I just bought because it contains Dick's final mindblowing three: VALIS, Ubik, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I concur that so far this reminds me more of PKD's short fiction. So far has not grabbed me in the way his other books have.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess I learned I'm tired of science fiction. I keep trying to revive my interest but it doesn't happen.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the more skippable philip k dick novels.  last one of those i read was &quot;now wait until last year&quot;.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers found that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Dick novel. I enjoyed the dark setting and plot twists. The characters were not highly developed, but it was a pretty good story.]]></body>
    
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