Martian Time-Slip >>>> A TRIPLE SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK - SIGNED BY BRIAN ALDISS, JONATHAN LETHEM & KIM STANLEY ROBINSON <<<<

Philip K. Dick

ISBN 10: 0450029786 / ISBN 13: 9780450029783

Published by New English Library, London, 1976

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A VG+ UK first edition, first printing hardback in a VG+ dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY BRIAN ALDISS, JONATHAN LETHEM & KIM STANLEY ROBINSON - Pictures of the book are available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Martian Time-Slip >>>> A TRIPLE SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK - SIGNED BY BRIAN ALDISS, JONATHAN LETHEM & KIM STANLEY ROBINSON <<<<
• Publisher: New English Library, London
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0450029786
• ISBN 13: 9780450029783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Review

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