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Disjointed and rambling tale of government and corporate plots. The USEA (US and Germany) Government is run by an actress and an android. Cro-Magnon or some other Early Modern Humans have re-appeared in Northern California (I may have met some, come to think of it). Emigration to Mars now takes place in homemade and technically illegal craft called jalopies. This is a weird and wild story, even for Philip Dick.
The book contains most of the usual suspect PKD ideas; time travel, Nazis, androids, ...more
The book contains most of the usual suspect PKD ideas; time travel, Nazis, androids, ...more
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I enjoyed this book like i do most good,mid level PKD books. The characters had mundane human reality to them and it was easy to believe their emotions,thoughts.
The book,the story had just too many wild ideas in one single book to be one of the better Dick books. He has done similar story,about similar political world,themes more impressive in other novels. The ending to this one was chaotic,bleak and was one of the stronger parts of this novel.
The book,the story had just too many wild ideas in one single book to be one of the better Dick books. He has done similar story,about similar political world,themes more impressive in other novels. The ending to this one was chaotic,bleak and was one of the stronger parts of this novel.
When you start reading this book, it can be quite confusing as there are numerous POV's and a huge cast of characters to get your head around. There is no main protagonist, merely a group of disperate characters who's stories loosly intertwine around each other to tell the complete story.
Set in a future that is moderately distopian, weakly authoritarian and mildly post-apocalyptic. A mind boggling array of themes are explored from the psycological (paranoia, hypochondria, mind-control) through s ...more
Set in a future that is moderately distopian, weakly authoritarian and mildly post-apocalyptic. A mind boggling array of themes are explored from the psycological (paranoia, hypochondria, mind-control) through s ...more
First this book was going one way and then ka-boom it goes another! I like this less than the Valis trilogy, but I gave it four stars...curious.
Oct 21, 2008
Evils
marked it as to-read
Apr 01, 2009
Sarah
marked it as to-read
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Feb 15, 2010
Boden Steiner
marked it as to-read
Aug 23, 2010
Acacia
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Jan 02, 2012
Alexandra Poe
marked it as to-read
