Counter-Clock World - Softcover

Philip K. Dick,Philip K Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007127707 ISBN 13: 9780007127702

Publisher: Voyager, 2008

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2008-09-01 Pages: 236 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning 'Time's Arrow' by as much as twenty years. Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.Time runs backwards in the Counter-Clock World.Old people emerge from their graves. grow to middle age. youth. adolescence and childhood to be finally unborn in their mothers wombs.The most powerful - and most feared - organisation in the world is the Library. in charge of expunging the written records of events. which have no longer happened.When a powerful black leader is reborn. the Librarys one concern is to eliminate him before the renewal of racial violence tears the country apart.But in this counter-clock yea...

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From the Inside Flap:

In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick?s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase?a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, ?Good-bye,? and part with, ?Hello,? and underneath the world?s tombstones, the dead are coming back to life. One imminent old-born is Anarch Peak, a vibrant religious leader whose followers continued to flourish long after his death. His return from the dead has such awesome implications that those who apprehend him will very likely be those who control the fate of the world.
Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.

From the Back Cover:

“Dick’s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable.” --The New York Times Book Review

“Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation. . . . We have our own homegrown Borges.” --Ursula K. LeGuin, The New Republic

About this edition

• Publisher: Voyager
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0007127707
• ISBN 13: 9780007127702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236