Solar Lottery (A Collier Nucleus Science Fiction Classic) - Softcover

Dick, Philip K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0020236212 ISBN 13: 9780020236214

Publisher: Collier Books, 1992

Synopsis

In the year 2203, when a system of random selection chooses both public officeholders and the targets of political assassination, Ted Benteley challenges the system and becomes a pawn in a power struggle that changes the direction of history

About this title

From the Back Cover

“One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction.” –The Sunday Times (London)

“A brilliant, idiosyncratic, formidably intelligent writer...Dick illuminates. He casts light. He gives off a radiance.” –Washington Post

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

“Dick [was] many authors: a poor man’s Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a rich product of the changing subculture.” –The Village Voice

About the Author

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) wrote 121 short stories and 45 novels and is considered one of the most visionary writers of the twentieth century. His work is included in the Library of America and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Eleven works have been adapted to film, including Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Collier Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0020236212
• ISBN 13: 9780020236214
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200