Martian Time-Slip

Book Diary 2021 (59 books items)

" Subject:In Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick uses power politics and extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to penetrate the mysteries of being and time. He himself had had a psychotic interlude, in his early twenties. It was common. It was natural. And, he had to admit, it was horrible. It made the fixed, rigid, compulsive-neurotic Public School seem a reference point by which one could gratefully steer one's course back to mankind and shared reality. It made him comprehend w"

Book Diary 2021 (96 books items)

"10.1. This novel was clearly written to cash in the success of Man in High Castle, since it's mostly the same, but the story is set on future Mars colony where time travel and stuff happens. Great ideas, but the narrative is weak. Dick must have had some bad time with his mental health and drug addiction around this time, since these stories feel very rushed and safe money-wise."