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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100547572190

ISBN-139780547572192

eBay Product ID (ePID)109100060

Product Key Features

Book TitleCounter-Clock World

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Science Fiction / Time Travel, Literary, Science Fiction / General

Publication Year2012

GenreFiction

AuthorPhilip K. Dick

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-036693

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisA theological and philosophical adventure in a world set in reverse from the award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick., Counter-Clock World is a theological and philosophical adventure in a world set in reverse from the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick, author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?--the basis for the film Blade Runner. Time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye," blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first--but their motives are not exactly benevolent, because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave. What would you do if your long-dead relatives started coming back? Who would take care of them? And what if they preferred being dead? In Counter-Clock World, these troubling questions are addressed; though, as always, you may have to figure out the answers yourself. "Dick is the American writer who in recent years has most influenced non-American poets, novelists, and essayists."--Roberto Bolaño, Counter-Clock World is a theological and philosophical adventure in a world set in reverse from the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick, author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?-- the basis for the film Blade Runner. Time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye," blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first--but their motives are not exactly benevolent, because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave.What would you do if your long-dead relatives started coming back? Who would take care of them? And what if they preferred being dead? In Counter-Clock World, these troubling questions are addressed; though, as always, you may have to figure out the answers yourself."Dick is the American writer who in recent years has most influenced non-American poets, novelists, and essayists."--Roberto Bolaño, "Dick is the American writer who in recent years has most influenced non-American poets, novelists, and essayists."--Roberto Bola o In Counter-Clock World , time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye," blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first--but their motives are not exactly benevolent because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave. What would you do if your long-dead relatives started coming back? Who would take care of them? And what if they preferred being dead? In Counter-Clock World , one of Dick's most theological and philosophical novels, these troubling questions are addressed; though, as always, you may have to figure out the answers yourself.

LC Classification NumberPS3554.I3C68 2012