Simulacra

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Philip K. Dick: Simulacra (2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)

224 pages

English language

Published Nov. 5, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

ISBN:
978-0-547-60130-4
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On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.

In classic Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.

12 editions

Subjects

  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Presidents, fiction
  • Fiction, political