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Title: Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 0-679-76167-5 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: great book by great Philip K. Dick
Comment: I've read a couple of Dick's novels and really enjoyed them all, except "VALIS" which I found a little bit superficial and banal. Im a big fan of "Three stigmata of Palmer Eldrich" which is his best book in my opinion.
"Martian Time-Slip" is a typical Phil Dick book - boring in the beginning, confusing in the middle, but excellent and interesting in the end. It is also his most optimistic and life-affirming book as well.
The essence of this book is the story of little autistic kid, who is deeply troubled by his savant abilities which allow him to see future and past. Driven into the state of sheer terror by visions of his own old age and death in the gloomy abandoned complexes of Martian colonists, boy is finding happiness by withdrawing into his past as a fetus in his mother's womb. Boy's ability to bend time is affecting people around him, and some of them foolishly try to use it to achieve their selfish goals. Finally, boy achieves redemption from his visions by coming into the contact with Bleekman - a backward and primitive, but deeply human and strange Martian nomadic race.
Rating: 5
Summary: SF NOVELS OPUS THIRTEEN
Comment: With UBIK, MARTIAN TIME-SLIP is in my opinion an achievement in Philip K. Dick's career. Simulacra, schizophreny and autism, time breaches, Dick's favorite themes, become mingled in this nightmarish novel you are going either to reject violently either to be hypnotized by. Because, in 1964, Philip K. Dick, books after books, was creating new standards for modern science-fiction.
Philip K. Dick has always read a lot, classic as well as modern literature. He rapidly felt that he had to adapt the classical structure of his first novels to a more deconstructed one in order to be able to treat his main themes like virtual realities or time gaps with the virtuosity we know. Some would say that most of the disturbing descriptions found in MARTIAN TIME-SLIP are the result of both a sick mind and the abuse of illegal substances. Maybe, maybe not. What is sure is that Philip K. Dick has written some of the most innovative pages of the literature of the sixties.
The description of the mental universe of Manfred Steiner, the schizophrenic boy, will leave you psychologically exhausted and with the urge to buy the whole literary production of this under-appreciated Master of american science-fiction.
A book for your library.
Rating: 5
Summary: Twenty-first century schizoid boy
Comment: In this major novel, first published in 1964, Dick effectively utilizes multifocal viewpoints to comment on the nature of the schizophrenic experience and its implications for our evaluation of "normal" experience. The precognitive schizophrenic boy, Manfred Steiner, into whose mind the narrative sometimes strays, sees the world as entropic, in continual decline, as the horrifying spirit of the Gubbler pervades everything, reducing all communication to meaningless "gubble" and all life to dust and rot. Schizophrenia is seen here as a horror in which the dark shadowy fears and inner demons are let loose into the day world of ordinary consciousness. Manfred innocently projects his deranged vision so powerfully on others that they begin to see things the way he does, causing one main character's time-sense to become non-chronological. It seems to have the power of a pervasive, infectious disease in this novel, replicating itself throughout the fabric of society. It is interesting to read this in contrast with another sixties book about the schizophrenic experience, R. D. Laing's The Politics of Experience (1967. Dick hardly soft-pedals the horrific aspects of the disorder, but like Laing also plays with the possibility that the psychotic may sometimes glimpse reality more fully than "normal" people can.
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Title: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by PHILIP K. DICK ISBN: 0679736662 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 0679742204 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 0679740678 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ubik by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 0679736646 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 0375719350 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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