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Martian Time-Slip (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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Description: Amazon Review One of the stand-out novels in Philip K. Dick's career of wildly reality-bending SF, Martian Time- Slip (1964) convinces by placing its insanities in a quiet, even domestic context. Here colonised Mars has a flavour of grubby, struggling 1950s suburbia, where money (not to mention water) is in short supply, jobs are insecure, the humour's mostly black, and small tragedies like one minor character's suicide cause far-ranging ripples. The good old human comedy of lies, power-play, real-estate deals and extramarital naughtiness continues as ever--all distorted by the real SF factor, an autistic child's dislo ... (more)
Manufacturer: Gollancz
Release date: 8 July 1999
ISBN-10 : 185798837X | ISBN-13: 9781857988376
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