Philip K. Dick
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| Title | : | Martian Time-Slip |
| Author | : | Philip K. Dick |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 262 pages |
| Published | : | May 30th 1995 by Vintage (first published April 1964) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
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On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people--especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union--suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future. 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.Specify Books Supposing Martian Time-Slip
| Original Title: | Martian Time-Slip |
| ISBN: | 0679761675 (ISBN13: 9780679761679) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Arnie Kott, Manfred Steiner, Norbert Steiner, Jack Bohlen |
| Setting: | Mars |
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Everybody has their own agenda in this world; some are crueler in its execution than others...The motivation behind primary protagonist's thought process is greed and his infinite ego. Its the most basic human flaw that has the capacity to ruin an entire world. In Martian Time-Slip, this very greed of land and overlord mentality brings down this man from his pedestal of power to crude death. Dick does this wonderfully without surrounding him with morally righteous characters. I am not sure ofGubble me more, she said. Gubble gubble me, put your gubbish into me, into my gubbish, you Gubbler. Gubble gubble, I like gubble! Don't stop. Gubble, gubble gubble gubble, gubble!That there is some beautiful dialogue from PKDs wacky 1964 novel Martian Time-Slip. I remember reading this in the 80s but I have practically no memory of the plot. However, I do remember all this Gubble gubble business very vividly. There is a surreal hallucinatory feeling to it that I will never forget.The title
Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Reading Club.A lot of people are big fans of PKD. A lot of people give him a great deal of respect as a literary science fiction writer. Academia permits you to like science fiction if you like Philip K. Dick. Its not like the rest of that science fiction stuff, which as you know, is all about aliens and spaceships and the like (at least, if you believe Margaret Atwood).My partner, on the other hand, really does
Mister, they take a brave journey. They turn away from mere things, which one may handle and turn to practical use; they turn inward to meaning. There, the black-night-without-bottom lies, the pit. Who can say if they will return? And if so, what will they be like, having glimpsed meaning? I admire them.I truly hated the first 70-80 pages, it read like too much of the other Dick I've encountered: paranoia, despair, the disabled. Martian Time-Slip then took a few flips and I admit I was dazzled.
3.5 stars
I usually like, no, love PKD stories, but this one made me shake my head so many times. I admit to being pretty disappointed. I have loved nearly everything Ive read by PKD, but not this one. I find it unbelievably dated. Especially when it concerned mental health or what we now call neurodiversity and even racism and cultural bias. And why didnt any SF writers from the 50s and 60s anticipate digital?!? I dont normally fault authors for that, because its so widespread. I didnt hate it, mind you.
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