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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. BRILLAINT: DISTURBING: INCANDESCENT: EXHILIRATING: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2008) Fourth Printing: NEW handsomely-designed LOA jacket: IMPECCABLE Condition throughout * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.50", 0.76 kg, x+1140 (1150) pp ABOUT THE BOOK: "The most outré sci…ence fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon," exclaimed Wired Magazine upon The Library of America's May 2007 publication of Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s, edited by Jonathan Lethem. The following year came the companion volume collecting 5 novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of this science-fiction master. Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent imagination who made & unmade world-systems w/ ferocious rapidity & unbridled speculative daring. "The floor joists of the universe," he once wrote, "are visible in my novels." "Martian Time-Slip" (1964) unfolds on a parched & thinly colonized Red Planet where schizophrenia is a contagion & the unscrupulous seek to profit from a troubled child's time-fracturing visions. "Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb" (1965) chronicles the deeply-interwoven stories of a multi-racial community of survivors, including the scientist who may have been responsible for World War III. Famous, among other reasons, for a therapy session involving a talking taxicab, "Now Wait for Last Year" (1966) explores the effects of JJ-180, a hallucinogen that alters not only perception, but reality. In "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" (1974), a television star seeks to unravel a mystery that has left him stripped of his identity. "A Scanner Darkly" (1977), the basis for the 2006 film, envisions a drug-addled world in which a narcotics officer's tenuous hold on sanity is strained by his new surveillance assignment: himself. Mixing metaphysics & madness, phantasmagoric visions of a post-nuclear world & invading extraterrestrial authoritarians, & all-too-real evocations of the drugged-out America of the 70s, Dick's work remains exhilarating & unsettling in equal measure. * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, & keeping permanently in print, America's best & most significant writing. The LiOA series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, & ribbon markers, & are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) was the author of 36 novels & more than 120 stories, including such celebrated works as "The Man in the High Castle" & "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the film Blade Runner). He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: JONATHAN LETHEM is the author "Fortress of Solitude" & many other novels & story collections. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine LOA volume for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.
