Recommended Age:
15
+
Great for independent readers who enjoy thought-provoking, immersive, and character-driven science fiction with complex plots.
About the Book
In a future of corporate psychic warfare and half-life a state of cold-pac suspended animation where the near-dead linger Joe Chip and his colleagues find themselves in an increasingly unstable reality after a bomb attack kills their employer, with no way to determine what is real and what is a dying mind's last dream. A vertiginous, unsettling novel of entropy and paranoia. One of Dick's most disorienting and philosophically rich books.
Content Ratings
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Intense Themes
The book creates sustained metaphysical disorientation as the nature of reality itself collapses. Themes of entropy, corporate exploitation, and the terror of not knowing whether one is alive or dead are central.
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Mild Violence
A bomb attack kills several characters. Further deaths occur as reality destabilizes. Violence is a consequence of corporate espionage rather than sustained action.
Engagement:
Genre:
Science Fiction
Published:
1969
Page Count:
215
