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This one gets a lower rating just because it’s a bit of an unfinished mess. If you don’t know the publication story, just read some other reviews cause folks love re-telling it. This book is full of great ideas, they just don’t mesh and per typical PKD feels like multiple books going on at the same time but unlike PKD, they are never properly reconciled. It’s the story of a newly discovered exoplanet and the company who is teleporting people to live there. Suspicion brews because the trip is on-
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I think of this story as Philip Dick's answer to Alice in Wonderland. Maybe there's a hundred pages of weirdness which "never happened" but so what. It's a Mad Hatter's Tea Party involving "Ol' Charley Falks and his little boy Martha." “Das kann nicht sein,” von Einem snarled. Don't fight it. PKD was maybe "trippin balls" when he wrote those hundred pages.
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Aug 22, 2019
Jesse Devault
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Jonna NLJ
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David
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