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This is not the strangest story from PKD, (you should read Lies, Inc. - now that is weird).
This story includes or rather is based on the short-story "Your appointment will be yesterday" written 1965.
Imho this is a typical PKD book, lots of tension between the characters, sporadic mentioning of drugs and sex without being explicit. And in the end you don't really know what happened, and for what reason. The journey is the reward.
The main focus is that time, as it seems, is moving backward. Cigare ...more
This story includes or rather is based on the short-story "Your appointment will be yesterday" written 1965.
Imho this is a typical PKD book, lots of tension between the characters, sporadic mentioning of drugs and sex without being explicit. And in the end you don't really know what happened, and for what reason. The journey is the reward.
The main focus is that time, as it seems, is moving backward. Cigare ...more
Easy read that is not very time consuming. OK, most of the book is an easy read. Some of the philosophical/religious parts are hard for me to follow. I am a Dick fan that is probably missing the finer points of what he is trying to convey. I think he is telling us that we operate on a lot of false perceptions (like Hermes thinking he hates Ann Fisher when he really loves her and he is scared of his feelings for her). I think he is trying to appeal to us that we are all alike (Anarch Peak stating
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