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 Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick
 Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick ... barter economy was working. Their resident genius could fix almost anything that broke down But they didn't know they were harbouring the one man who almost everyone left alive wanted killed?Newest Review: ... paranoia of the time. Dr. Bloodmoney is sometimes compared to Dr. Strangelove, director Stanley Kubrick's classic ... more ... celluloid of nuclear misanthropy. Though the Germanic protagonists (inspired by the Nazi V-2 rocket scientists whose wartime crimes were overlooked by the U.S. in compensation for the loan of their ballistic talents) of both works share severe cases of megalomaniacal paranoia, they are really quite different. For one thing, as Dick himself notes, his novel is much more optimistic. The title character, who is actually referred to by the Germanic "Bluthgeld," was an atomic scientist who in 1972 advoca ...more |
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There was a time when the United States was trying to close a missile gap with those pesky Ruskies (a gap which in fact never existed) Ever-increasing throw-weights were created that could blow up the world several times over. The emerging strategic doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD (who says the American Government doesn't have a sense of humor?), sought to achieve deterrence (though, arguably, it did) by threatening to respond to any nuclear launch by the enemy with overwhelming strikes guaranteed to wipe them both (and probably the rest of the world) out. Back then people were thinking a lot about what might happen next, assuming that there ...
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