WHAT HAD ANSWERED MANKIND'S CALL FOR HELP Thors Provoni had gone to the stars to seek help for his fellow men. So far there was no evidence that any other intelligent race existed out there at all, let alone one willing to aid ordinary homo sapiens on in Earth where he had become a second-class citizen. For in the 22nd Century dominance in human affairs had passed to a cabal of genetic freaks - telepaths, precogs, 'New Men' with IQs which went off the scale - and ordinary men didn't have much of a chance. Suddenly a message came from Provoni. He was coming back, miraculously, with friends from Frolix 8 to champion the 'Old Men'. But who, or what, and just how friendly, were these friends?
A matchless display of Philip K. Dick''s quirky, humorous, idiosyncratically philosophical world view. With one exception, all the stories of this volume were written over a nine-month period between 1951 and 1952, when Dick was making his first impact as a writer.
On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life. Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance" , immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.
Philip K. Dick est né en 1928 à Chicago qu''il quitte très jeune pour la Californie, où il vivra toute sa vie. Habité par le virus de la science-fiction, il commence à vendre ses premiers récits dès
No man in their rightful mind would kill their wife miles from home. Chuck Rittersdorf has recruited some robot help, and now, in the madness and dysfunction of the Alphane moon, there seems no better place to carry out his cruel plans unless he too is part of a much larger conspiracy. Alpha Centauri, a star within the closest star system to earth, has several orbiting moons, among which is Alpha III M2. On this remote moon, a colony, originally set up to provide respite for the mentally ill is about to become the focus of a secret invasion plan. Among them is Chuck Rittersdorf, a 21st century CIA robot programmer, who has decided to kill his own wife via a remote control simulacrum. He enlists the aid of a telepathic Ganymedean slime mould called Lord Running Clam, an attractive female police officer and various others both witting and unwitting. But when Chuck finds himself in the midst of an interplanetary spy ring on the Alphane moon inhabited entirely by certified maniacs, his personal revenge plans begin to awry as the nature of reality itself is called into question in this brilliantly inventive tale of interstellar madness, murder and violence.
Las enfermedades mentales han incrementado tanto en el planeta tierra, que se deciden a extraditarlos al planeta Alfa III. Durante dos décadas están completamente olvidados por los terrícolas periodo en el cual acaban organizandose en diferentes estratos sociales por su patologia, formando diferentes clanes; sin embargo en la Tierra deciden enviar al agente de la CIA, Chuch RItterford, junto con su esposa Mary, quien pretende asesinarle, y una estrella de la television, Bunny Hentmann. Todo ello nos reune a una serie de estrafalarios personajes, en la que los limites de los real y lo irreal revelan la fina linea divisoria que se encuentra entre ambas. Amor, locura, diversion....¿hasta donde llega la exploracion de la psique humana?.
