The Simulacra
A few years from now, the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn't seem possible, does it? Welcome to the world of Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychoterapist. Philip K. Dick tels a story of desperate love,...
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A few years from now, the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn't seem possible, does it? Welcome to the world of Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychoterapist. Philip K. Dick tels a story of desperate love, lethal body odour and an attempted fascistic takeover of the USA and shows that there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780575074606
Publish date: 1964 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: The Ofion Publishing Group
Pages no: 192
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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