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Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s

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Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s

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Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Library of America, 2008
Series: Library of America P. K. Dick Collection: Book 2

1. Four Novels of the 1960s
2. Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s
3. VALIS & Later Novels

Book Type: Omnibus
Genre: Science-Fiction
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Synopsis

"The floor joists of the universe," he once wrote, "are visible in my novels."

Martian Time-Slip (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red Planet where schizophrenia is a contagion and the unscrupulous seek to profit from a troubled child's time-fracturing visions.

Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965) chronicles the deeply-interwoven stories of a multi-racial community of survivors, including the scientist who may have been responsible for World War III. Famous, among other reasons, for a therapy session involving a talking taxicab,

Now Wait for Last Year (1966) explores the effects of JJ-180, a hallucinogen that alters not only perception, but reality.

In Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974), a television star seeks to unravel a mystery that has left him stripped of his identity.

A Scanner Darkly (1977), the basis for the 2006 film, envisions a drug-addled world in which a narcotics officer's tenuous hold on sanity is strained by his new surveillance assignment: himself.

Mixing metaphysics and madness, phantasmagoric visions of a post-nuclear world and invading extraterrestrial authoritarians, and all-too-real evocations of the drugged-out America of the 70s, Dick's work remains exhilarating and unsettling in equal measure.


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