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This novel is set in 1962 San Francisco in a very memorable alternate world years after a longer World War II, most of the world is under totalitarian Fascist imperialism as the war was won by Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany.
It is a profound novel that has much to say about our world through an alternative political world like George Orwell's 1984.
Its a very ambitious novel that Dick uses to comment on Fascism and also people who hate non-white peoples. There was a racist character that was cle ...more
It is a profound novel that has much to say about our world through an alternative political world like George Orwell's 1984.
Its a very ambitious novel that Dick uses to comment on Fascism and also people who hate non-white peoples. There was a racist character that was cle ...more
This is a work both of science fiction and of alternate history. Dick gives victory in WWII to both Japan and Germany, who partition the United States. Most of the story takes place in the Western Pacific Region, but we do get occasional glimpses of the action in the East through characters reports and musings, and a parallel story takes us into the Rocky Mountain States. There is a fascinating novel-within-a-novel, and I wonder if Dick completed it, or only gave us the tantalizing peeks that he
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I liked this and there were parts that I loved, but I thought this started sort of slow. The Coup de Grace is always good in PKD books, so I'm happy with this...
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isto taka preskrasna kniga. bi sakal da cujam mislenje od drugi sto ja procitale.
Aug 05, 2008
Danna
marked it as to-read
Oct 21, 2008
Evils
marked it as to-read
Apr 01, 2009
Sarah
rated it
it was amazing
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science-fiction,
sf-masterworks-old
Jul 27, 2009
Alex DiDonato
rated it
really liked it
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science-fiction,
speculative-fiction
Aug 17, 2009
Sarbjit
marked it as to-read
