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Philip K. Dick
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| Original Title: | Martian Time-Slip |
| ISBN: | 0679761675 (ISBN13: 9780679761679) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Arnie Kott, Manfred Steiner, Norbert Steiner, Jack Bohlen |
| Setting: | Mars |
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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.Point Out Of Books Martian Time-Slip
| Title | : | Martian Time-Slip |
| Author | : | Philip K. Dick |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 262 pages |
| Published | : | May 30th 1995 by Vintage (first published April 1964) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
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Madness on Mars (con TRADUZIONE)Arnie Kott (the head of the plumbing union), Jack Bohlen (the schizoid repairman), Manfred (the autistic child), Norbert Steiner (the black market goodies man), and Doreen (Arnie's mistress) are just some of the people who inhabit PKD's dystopian vision of Mars, where economic stagnation is complemented by the spiritual stagnation of the residents, who shun and marginalize the native population - the Bleekmen.Martian time - slip is relatively slow moving comparedMartian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick, published in 1964, is one of PKDs better books. Set on Mars, this is largely about Terran colonists taking care of business. Dick provides a snapshot of social, political and economic life on Mars. Bleekmen are the long suffering indigenous extra-terrestrial native Martians, cast aside like Native Americans and called the N word by a fat cat union boss. Carrying on the tradition set by Robert A. Heinlein in Red Planet and Ray Bradburys The Martian Chronicles,
Everything wears out eventually; nothing is permanent. Change is the one constant of life. Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip Martian Time-Slip may not be one of Dick's BEST novels, but it is almost my favorite. There is a huge energy and vitality in it. Dick is painting with his usual themes (loneliness, madness, drugs, pre-cognition, time, artificial intelligence, the other, corporatism, love, etc), but there is nothing usual about what he extracts. The only thing missing from this book is
Philip K. Dick just couldn't be bothered by some of the standard verities of science fiction. He knew sf should often take place in outer space, but whereas other novelists placed their narratives in the 22, 23, or some unimaginable distant future, in the novels Dick wrote in the 1950's and 1960's, he thought that 40 or so years was plenty of time for man to start populating the universe. He also didn't pay much attention to the news coming out from astrophysicists that the weather on other
This is the second work by Phillip K. Dick I have read, the first being The Man In The High Castle and I guess he is just not the writer for me. I had a terrible time getting through this book, It just did not hold my attention. I considered DNFing this at several points but stuck with it. The writing is good, but the plot was so slow, that by the time it really started to pick up the pace, I was completely uninterested in what was going on.
Everybody has their own agenda in this world; some are crueler in its execution than others...The motivation behind primary protagonist's thought process is greed and his infinite ego. Its the most basic human flaw that has the capacity to ruin an entire world. In Martian Time-Slip, this very greed of land and overlord mentality brings down this man from his pedestal of power to crude death. Dick does this wonderfully without surrounding him with morally righteous characters. I am not sure of
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