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Phillip K Dick
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Publisher | Gollancz | ||
ISBN | 978-057507995 | ||
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Gareth
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Synopsis
Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people - and he's the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich and famous again? Was he, in fact, ever rich and famous?
Review
This is another in Philip K. Dick's stories of paranoia and mind-warping reality (others include "A Scanner Darkly" and "Maze of Death"). This is one man trying to come to terms with his altered reality - in the way that we all are in one way or another. No one could tell a science-fiction story like Dick with all his prose having an hallucinogenic quality to them. It's probably not as strong as "The Man In The High Castle" and is quite depressing and bleak at times but is certainly still one of the highpoints of the sci-fi genre and an a wonderful expose of the human character.
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