Dick shows his usual dazzling blend of vision and narrative energy in this novel. The ideas he is playing with and the manner with which he uses humanity and technology to play out these ideas is five star worthy.However, maybe due to the above, I can't help being 3 star disappointed upon finishing....
Naja die gewohnte Dick'sche Qualitätsarbeit ist dieses Werk meiner Meinung nach gar nicht. Zwar dreht sich die Handlung wie meistens in seinen Werken um die Grundfaktoren der Menschlichkeit im Gegensatz zu Maschinen (Androiden), aber es fehlen völlig diese kleinen ironischen humoristischen Elemente,...
A mish-mash of themes and ideas in this book with occaisional flashes of brilliance but never quite weaved together as expertly as he has done elsewhere.Themes explored in this book include those that he has examined in other books such as simulacrums ("Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep", "The Sim...