![]() ![]() With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. ![]() ![]() But everything takes a decidedly unpredictable turn when the revolution’s leader, Thors Provoni, returns from ten years of intergalactic hiding with a ninety-ton protoplasmic slime that is bent on creating a new world order. When they both fall in love with Charlotte Boyer, a feisty black marketer of revolutionary propaganda, Nick seems destined for doom. ![]() Willis Gram is the despotic oligarch of a planet ruled by big-brained elites. Nick Appleton is a menial laborer whose life is a series of endless frustrations. In Our Friends From Frolix 8, he clashes private dreams against public battles in a fast-paced and provocative tale that ultimately addresses our salvation both as individuals and a whole. Dick was largely concerned with humanity’s most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. ![]()
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