Philip K. Dick: Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s
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- Kustantaja: Library of America
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781598530254
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Jonathan Lethem, editor 'The most outre science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon, ' exclaimed 'Wired Magazine' upon The Library of America's May 2007 publication of 'Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s, ' edited by Jonathan Lethem. Now comes a companion volume collecting five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of this science-fiction master. Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent imagination who made and unmade world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. '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. '