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Better than I had anticipated based on prior reviews. Still not the best work by PKD. Some intriguing elements, but devoid of the what I like about his work...no psychological damage to the author or overlying realities. Mass psychological damage to an entire caste of people though...
damn good fun. kind of a sexy space couple
upgraded this review from 4/5 to 5/5.
Re-read OFFF8 last night and it really hit home (with its opposing political factions running the corporate world as a prison planet in direct confrontation with You The People.
Wow, one wonders a) was PKD a real seer? and b) what's the relevance of his Frolixian Solution i.e. the debraining of the tyrants? ...more
Re-read OFFF8 last night and it really hit home (with its opposing political factions running the corporate world as a prison planet in direct confrontation with You The People.
Wow, one wonders a) was PKD a real seer? and b) what's the relevance of his Frolixian Solution i.e. the debraining of the tyrants? ...more
Fairly standard '60s Philip K. Dick stuff- nebbishy anti-hero, feral and amoral and irresistibly violent girl, dualing geniuses at the head of doomed conspiracies. And in this case a godlike alien race. Good reading but nothing too surprising for PKD enthusiasts.
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Ahhh the Dickian theme of small-man-becomes-important-antihero-while-still-struggling-with-his-issues. And those issues, of course, mirror Dick's to a lesser or greater degree. Lovely.
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