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In Counter-Clock World, time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye," blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first--but their motives are not exactly benevolent because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave.
What would you do if your long-dead relatives started coming back? Who would take care of them? And what if they preferred being dead? In Counter-Clock World, one of Dick's most theological and philosophical novels, these troubling questions are addressed; though, as always, you may have to figure out the answers yourself.
In Counter-Clock World, time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye," blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first--but their motives are not exactly benevolent because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave.
What would you do if your long-dead relatives started coming back? Who would take care of them? And what if they preferred being dead? In Counter-Clock World, one of Dick's most theological and philosophical novels, these troubling questions are addressed; though, as always, you may have to figure out the answers yourself.
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- PublisherWhite Lion Publishers
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0856171999
- ISBN 13 9780856171994
- BindingUnknown Binding
- Number of pages160
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COUNTER-CLOCK WORLD
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White Lion Publishers Limited, London, Sydney and Toronto
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ISBN 13: 9780856171994
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Book Description Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. A "downright peculiar novel . replete with the usual Dickian satire and angst" (Pringle) in which time begins to run backwards and the institutions of power attempt to manipulate the body and soul of the newly reanimated former and future leader of a socio-religious organization called the FNM. Expansion of the novella "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday," (AMAZING, August 1966). A fine copy in very good dust jacket with rubbing to folds and rubbing and light wear to spine ends and corners. A very uncommon book. (#126642). Seller Inventory # 126642
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