The Simulacra
On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with...
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On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.In classic Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781469258560 (1469258560)
Publish date: September 18th 2012
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
Na pierwszy rzut oka "Simulacra" wydaje się być powieścią pełną chaosu. Bez wątpienia jest lekturą trudniejszą od "Ubika", "Blade Runner" czy "Człowieka z Wysokiego Zamku", czyli od tych trzech, które znałem. Jej trudność polega na tym, że nie tylko świat przedstawiony jest dziwnym efektem rozmyślań...
It's tough to give a book like this a rating. On one hand, PKD uses some really brilliant SF concepts here. Take the apartment buildings, HOA gone mad in a way that's almost eerily plausible. And then there's how the cult of personality has inhabited politics to the point where the First Lady is a p...
I thought this novel was pretty bad, the worst Dick novel I had ever read. There were lots of good Dickian ideas introduced but most of them fizzled. There were TOO many ideas thrown in for a 200 page novel. Some of them were introduced but Dick seemed to lose interest or just wanted to get rid o...
Disjointed and rambling tale of government and corporate plots. The USEA (US and Germany) Government is run by an actress and an android. Cro-Magnon or some other Early Modern Humans have re-appeared in Northern California (I may have met some, come to think of it). Emigration to Mars now takes plac...
When you start reading this book, it can be quite confusing as there are numerous POV's and a huge cast of characters to get your head around. There is no main protagonist, merely a group of disperate characters who's stories loosly intertwine around each other to tell the complete story.Set in a fu...
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