Counter-Clock World - Softcover

Dick, Philip K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340218304 ISBN 13: 9780340218303

Publisher: CORONET BOOKS, 1977

Synopsis

1st Coronet edition paperback, vg+

About this title

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: CORONET BOOKS
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0340218304
• ISBN 13: 9780340218303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160