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by Philip K. Dick, Manuel Espin
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A Few Thoughts
A Few Thoughts rated it 11 years ago
A masterpiece.
CarlAlves
CarlAlves rated it 11 years ago
There’s a lot going on in this novel beyond the main storyline, some of it good, some of it not so good. Written in 1969, this novel was written in the future (1992), which is now our past. Dick got virtually none of his future predictions right in this novel, which casts it in a bit of a negative...
kennethjmcginnis
kennethjmcginnis rated it 12 years ago
4.02462655
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 12 years ago
I couldn't carry on. There was a time when I thought PKD was awesome, but these days it just all seems the same to me: muddled and paranoid.Library copy
nouveau
nouveau rated it 12 years ago
I was a little later coming to this PKD masterwork, but agreed upon completion that it is of the finer novels. (PKD is profilic; he has a huge number of second-rate or even third-rate works). possibly its popularity lies in the fact that a fairly decent sci-fi/ nested realities 'Vanilla Sky' / 'Ince...
Blogged Out Ma Nut
Blogged Out Ma Nut rated it 13 years ago
Twist-tastic!
Ana V.
Ana V. rated it 13 years ago
The plot was amazing! I think I'm addicted to this author now.. He has a way of messing everything in your head!
Barrita
Barrita rated it 13 years ago
Una de esas cosas que amo de leer ciencia ficción de hace décadas, y particularmente Philip K. Dick, es que hay tanto cliché y al mismo tiempo saber que en realidad muchos de estos clichés nacieron en obras como esta.Otra cosa que amo es hacer una lista de los inventos futuristas de estas novelas qu...
Book Ramblings
Book Ramblings rated it 14 years ago
Mind blown!Philip K. Dick is generally very welled loved by the sf readership, nobody writes quite like him. His novels tend to mess with my head and leave me WTF-ing, wondering where I am and what is going on. In a good way of course.It is difficult for me to choose a Dick favorite, I have never re...
thomcat
thomcat rated it 14 years ago
I really enjoyed this book and, even though I've read several PKDs, still didn't guess where it would end up. Book set in 1992, written in 1969, and was a little off on the future front, but that quibble aside, this is a great story!
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