Bibliograph

Five novels of the 1960s & 70s, Philip K. Dick ; Jonathan Lethem selected the contents and wrote the notes

Type

Label

Five novels of the 1960s & 70s, Philip K. Dick ; Jonathan Lethem selected the contents and wrote the notes

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Five novels of the 1960s & 70s

Oclc number

238462471

Responsibility statement

Philip K. Dick ; Jonathan Lethem selected the contents and wrote the notes

Series statement

Library of America

Summary

Martian time-slip : Although Manfred Steiner is doomed to death and exiled to Mars as a human defective, Arnie Knott discovers that the young boy can be manipulated and his strange powers controlled so that he can travel in the futureDr. Bloodmoney : A post-nuclear-holocaust vision of a world transformed, where technology has reverted back to the nineteenth century, animals have developed speech and language, and humans must deal with both physical mutations and the psychological repercussions of the disaster they have causedNow wait for last year : A world leader uses his strange ability to die repeatedly and be brought back to life to ward off a global catastropheFlow my tears, the policeman said : A Los Angeles television celebrity awakens one morning to find there is no record of his existenceA scanner darkly : A drug dealer of the future periodically moves away from his spaced-out world to become an informer for narcotics agents until he becomes unable to separate his two personalities

Target audience

adult

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Five novels of the 1960s and 70sFive novels of the 1960s & 1970s

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