false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177360868m/697251.jpg 697251 19 On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated anomalous children for deportation & destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union--suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future. In <b>Martian Time-Slip</b> Philip K. Dick uses power politics & extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery & murder to penetrate the mysteries of being & time. 802401 1964 Martian Time-slip total:997|5:224|4:379|3:329|2:58|1:7| 997 3746 1324 58 4 2 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed May 02 21:16:34 -0700 2007 Wed May 02 21:19:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Mar 08 17:41:16 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 17:50:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 11:23:39 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 17:41:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 07:11:06 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 06:10:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 06:20:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 16:30:00 -0700 2009
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I don't know whether Dick's portrayal of Manfred Steiner's autism or Jack Bohlen's schizophrenia is accurate, but I can say that I found both characters empathetic and memorable and among his best. In other PKD novels the p...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 22 06:46:17 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 06:41:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 06:10:53 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 07:14:13 -0800 2009
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Anyway, this book is great. It's edgy and thought provoking. Everything you'd expect from the author of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep and A Scanner Darkly.]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Thu Jul 30 02:11:31 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 02:14:34 -0700 2009 1 4 0 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 18:15:01 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 08:43:47 -0800 2008 Philip K. Dick book, but worth reading for fans of his. Anyone that hasn't read any of his books might want to start with something like The Man in the High Castle or Do Androids' Dream of Electric Sheep (which was the very loose basis for Blade Runner...in f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 10:56:44 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 07:48:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 23:22:29 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 23:24:26 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 19:41:08 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 09:42:06 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=697251