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 Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick
Description: ISBN 0575079967 / Author: Philip K. Dick / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water ... more  Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick ... may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. Although the UN has labelled such children for deportation and destruction, some people, especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union, suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future.Newest Review: ... Jack Bohlen, is a repairman – a job that keeps him very busy on a planet where mechanical equipment is expensive to import ... more ... and regularly breaks down. Other significant persons include Arnie Kott, head of the powerful Water Workers Union, his secretary-cum-mistress Doreen Anderton, and Jack’s neighbour’s autistic son, Manfred Steiner. Though there are, typically, quite a few characters involved, most are introduced fairly early on and quickly entangled by some chance encounters. Since they’re all very different, I found it a bit easy to keep track of who was who than sometimes, even if it was a bit harder to remember all the relationship...more |
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Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick: 2001: A Martian Odyssey (704 words)
by a-true-ben - written on 23.08.07 (Very useful, 82 readings)
Rating:
Having very much enjoyed the first two Philip K. Dick novels I read – which had coincidentally been his first two (Solar Lottery and The World Jones Made) – I jumped to a mid-career novel, Martian Time-Slip, due mainly to the fact I’d bought several while half-price on Amazon. The setting, obviously enough, is Mars, circa 2001. It’s still a bleak, desolate planet, where water is precious and the few human settlers eke out something of a frontier existence, with luxuries from home only available on the black market. Incidentally, the planet is populated by a few surviving natives – little black men, known as Bleekmen, or sometimes niggers. There’s an ...
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