{"product_id":"9781598530254","title":"Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s \u0026 70s (LOA #183): Martian Time-Slip \/ Dr. Bloodmoney \/ Now Wait for Last Year \/ Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said \/ A Scanner Darkly","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathan Lethem, editor \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The most outré science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon,\" exclaimed \u003ci\u003eWired Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e upon The Library of America's May 2007 publication of \u003ci\u003ePhilip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Jonathan Lethem. Now comes a companion volume collecting five novels that offer a breathtaking overview of the range of this science-fiction master. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent imagination who made and unmade world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. \"The floor joists of the universe,\" he once wrote, \"are visible in my novels.\" \u003ci\u003eMartian Time-Slip\u003c\/i\u003e (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red Planet where schizophrenia is a contagion and the unscrupulous seek to profit from a troubled child's time-fracturing visions. \u003ci\u003eDr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e (1965) chronicles the deeply-interwoven stories of a multi-racial community of survivors, including the scientist who may have been responsible for World War III. Famous, among other reasons, for a therapy session involving a talking taxicab, \u003ci\u003eNow Wait for Last Year\u003c\/i\u003e (1966) explores the effects of JJ-180, a hallucinogen that alters not only perception, but reality. In \u003ci\u003eFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said \u003c\/i\u003e(1974), a television star seeks to unravel a mystery that has left him stripped of his identity. \u003ci\u003eA Scanner Darkly\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), the basis for the 2006 film, envisions a drug-addled world in which a narcotics officer's tenuous hold on sanity is strained by his new surveillance assignment: himself. Mixing metaphysics and madness, phantasmagoric visions of a post-nuclear world and invading extraterrestrial authoritarians, and all-too-real evocations of the drugged-out America of the 70s, Dick's work remains exhilarating and unsettling in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036921905392,"sku":"9781598530254","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598530254_p0.jpg?v=1763813777","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598530254","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}