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Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas

by Michael Bishop

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It is 1982. The United States has a permanent Moonbase. Richard M. Nixon is in the fourth term of the "imperial presidency." And an eccentric novelist named Philip K. Dick has just died in California.

Or has he? Psychiatrist Lia Pickford, M.D., is nonplussed when Dick walks into her office in small-town Georgia, with a cab idling outside, to ask for help. And Cal Pickford, a longtime Dick fan stunned by the news of his hero's death, is electrified when his wife tells him of the visit.

So begins a sequence of events involving Cal in the repressive Nixon regime, the affairs of an aging movie queen, a hip but frightened Vietnamese immigrant and an old black man who works as a groom--all leading up to a fateful confrontation between Dick, Cal, and Nixon himself on the moon.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780312890025
Author:
Bishop, Michael
Publisher:
Orb Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Dick, Philip K
Subject:
Science / General
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st Orb ed.
Edition Description:
Orb
Series Volume:
60
Publication Date:
19931115
Binding:
TP
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8.25x5.45x.91 in. .86 lbs.

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