Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas - Softcover

Bishop MS MT (Ascp) Cls (Nca), Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933846542 ISBN 13: 9781933846545

Publisher: Fairwood Press, 2015

Synopsis

In this heartfelt science-fiction homage, Philip K. Dick dies in 1982 in Santa Ana, California, during the fourth term of the repressive imperial presidency of Richard Milrose Nixon. Soon thereafter, stripped of his memory, Dick turns up in the office of Lia Bonner, a young psychotherapist in Warm Springs, Georgia. Ultimately, Dick manifests at Von Braunville, the American moon base, as a key figure in a gonzo conspiracy to trigger a "redemptive shift" of world-changing scope. Indeed, according to The New York Times, the ending of Michael Bishop's wittily inventive Dickian extravaganza "approaches sublimity."

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Review:

"If the science fiction field has a saint it is likely the late Philip K. Dick, the writer who brought spiritual and political consciousness to a literary genre blithely innocent of both. Bishop...has fashioned a loving homage that explodes with energy and invention." --New York Daily News

"You don't have to have read Dick's work extensively to appreciate this book. As a companion piece to Dick's oeuvre, it is superb; as an evocation of what Dick could do it's damn near perfect; and as an independent book in its own right, it's one of the best books I've read this year." --Pat Cadigan

"I haven't had as much fun with a science fiction novel since Philip K. Dick himself died, alas. The wit, the pain, the suspense, the can't-put-it-down excitement of Dick's best are all here, along with Bishop's own inimitable slant and style." --Paul Preuss

"Had I not known what I was reading I would have thought it a great undiscovered Philip K. Dick novel. An impressive tour de force." --Lisa Goldstein

About this edition

• Publisher: Fairwood Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1933846542
• ISBN 13: 9781933846545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316