“I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning.”—Fantasy and Science Fiction
When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy.
Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious take downs. Eye in the Sky blends the thrills and the jokes to craft a startling morality lesson hidden inside a comedy.
**
Review
“Dick was science fiction’s greatest extrapolator of modern angst.” *–New York Daily News
“Dick is entertaining us about… reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation… [He is] our own homegrown Borges.” – Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic
“It’s beginning to look as though greatness has been thrust upon Philip K. Dick…[He] has chosen to handle…material too nutty to accept, too admonitory to forget, too haunting to abandon.” –*Washington Post
“One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction.” –The Sunday Times (London)
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Description:
“I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning.”—Fantasy and Science Fiction
When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy.
Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious take downs. Eye in the Sky blends the thrills and the jokes to craft a startling morality lesson hidden inside a comedy.
**
Review
“Dick was science fiction’s greatest extrapolator of modern angst.” *–New York Daily News
“Dick is entertaining us about… reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation… [He is] our own homegrown Borges.” – Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic
“One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction.” –The Sunday Times (London)
*
Book Description
Vintage paperback, 2003
Previous ISBN 978-1-400-03010-1