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Another of Dick’s works to get caught up in a bit too many names and plot threads though they all tied together in the end, in typical fashion. Really, I should know to start making character notes in the inside front covers at this point. Although the story is interesting and the plot twists weird and wonderful, I consider this one of his “filler” works. This one involves a faulty transport unit that accidentally opens a rent between parallel worlds (a heavily trod plot line in today’s Hollywoo
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This book is (unfortunately) not about drugs and space travel. Rather, this book is about transportation devices. There's the jet'ab, monojets, 'scutllers, etc. Sort of like Harry Potter where there's flying cars, flying brooms, floo-network, portkeys, apparition/disapparition, etc. It seems like both these authors were obsessed with novel ways to move the characters around.
Anyhow, the story moves from point A to point B without much complication. Other PKD stories have a bunch of independent c ...more
Anyhow, the story moves from point A to point B without much complication. Other PKD stories have a bunch of independent c ...more
Apr 01, 2014
James Niven
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Estelle
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it was ok
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