A Maze of Death - Hardcover
Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only fourteen citizens, no one can trust anyone else and death can strike at any moment. The planet is vast and largely unexplored, populated mostly by gelatinous cube-shaped beings that give cryptic advice in the form of anagrams. Deities can be spoken to directly via a series of prayer amplifiers and transmitters, but they may not be happy about it. And the mysterious building in the distance draws all the colonists to it, but when they get there each sees a different motto on the front. The mystery of this structure and the secrets contained within drive this mind-bending novel.
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LIFE AND DEATH IN THE NEW WORLD
Fourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmak-O, each looking forward to a new life in a new world. But what is the huge forbidding building near their settlement that plays on each individual’s fears and superstitions? And what are the tiny artificial insects which observe the colonists with minute TV cameras?
Without warning, the murders begin ...
“The fact that what Dick is writing about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation – this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own home-grown borges, and had him for thirty years”
URSULA K. LEGUIN
“My literary hero”
FAY WELDON
“One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction”
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- PublisherLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0575006943
- ISBN 13 9780575006942
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages216
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A Maze of Death
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Victor Gollancz Ltd, London
(1972)
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ISBN 13: 9780575006942
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