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Synopsis
On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union--suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future. In Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time.
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One of the stand-out novels in Philip K. Dick's career of wildly reality-bending SF, Martian Time- Slip (1964) convinces by placing its insanities in a quiet, even domestic context. Here colonised Mars has a flavour of grubby, struggling 1950s suburbia, where money (not to mention water) is in short supply, jobs are insecure, the humour's mostly black, and small tragedies like one minor character's suicide cause far-ranging ripples. The good old human comedy of lies, power-play, real-estate deals and extramarital naughtiness continues as ever--all distorted by the real SF factor, an autistic child's dislocated sense of time. In one memorable scene he sketches the glorious new Martian housing project just being planned ... but as it will look a century later, a decayed slum. So powerful are this boy's visions of nightmare futures that they suck in other people and infect them with sick images of the "gubbish worm", an appalling symbol of entropy. Gubbish devours beauty and reduces language itself to meaningless gubble-gubble. The very human and occasionally even likeable villain Arnie Kott plans to exploit this time-twisting ability, whereupon things become very tangled indeed. Another worthy reissue in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, which has yet to pick a single dud. --David Langford
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Philip K. Dick is the bestselling author of MINORITY REPORT and BLADE RUNNER
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- PublisherNew English Library
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0450029786
- ISBN 13 9780450029783
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
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Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pennington, Bruce (illustrator). First Edition. First UK edition and first hardcover edition. Published in the SF Master Series with an eight page introduction by Brian W. Aldiss. Originally published in the US by Ballantine as a paperback original in 1964. Boards have slight fading to edges and to the top and base of the spine. Slight rubbing to corners and edges. Page edges and endpapers are browned with quite heavy spotting. Pages are browned but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has creasing to edges and corners. There are one inch tears at the top of the front panel on either side with some associated creasing and the tears have been repaired to the reverse of the jacket. Brown spotting to the reverse. Jacket illustration by Bruce Pennington. First printing. Seller Inventory # 022417
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