Now Wait for Last Year - Softcover

Dick, Philip K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006482449 ISBN 13: 9780006482444

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

Contacted by starmen of similar racial stock who have a greatly advanced, galactic society, a united Earth becomes their ally in a lengthy war with the Reegs, blue, six-limbed aliens with no vocal chords. This is the story of how Earth chose the wrong ally.

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Book Description:

A classic Philip K Dick idea: the hero who keeps coming back from the dead ¿ if he was ever alive at all.

From the Back Cover:

Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader is perpetually on the verge of death. And on top of it all, a new drug has just entered circulation a drug that haphazardly sends its users traveling through time.In an attempt to escape his doomed marriage, Dr. Eric Sweetscent becomes caught up in all of it. But he has questions: is Earth on the right side of the war? Is he supposed to heal Earth s leader or keep him sick? And can he change the harrowing future that the drug has shown him?
Over a career that spanned three decades, Philip K. Dick (1928 1982) wrote 121 short stories and 45 novels, establishing himself as one of the most visionary authors of the twentieth century. His work is included in the Library of America and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Eleven works have been adapted to film, including Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0006482449
• ISBN 13: 9780006482444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232