Status
Available
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Publication
Eyre Methuen (1976), Paperback
Description
Jim Parsons is a talented doctor, skilled at the most advanced medical techniques and dedicated to saving lives. But after a bizarre road accident leaves him hundreds of years in the future, Parsons is horrified to discover an incredibly advanced civilization that zealously embraces death.
User reviews
LibraryThing member sixslug
A man is plucked from his time to a very strange future and rolls with it way too well. I usually enjoy Dick's explorations into life, death and life after death, time travel and evil corrupt governments, but not here. There's lots of ideas but not much believability. I kept wondering if this man
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had any friends back in his own time. We know he has a wife, but he hardly thinks or worries about her. I was also frustrated by Dick's refusal to supply descriptive details about things: cars, food, medical equipment, etc. that practically scream for it. Show Less
LibraryThing member mareki
A very interesting early novel by Dick, that shows some of the themes (identity, time travel, ethics, the self etc) that typify his work throughout his career. But the plot is a bizarre romp through time involving euthenasia, red indians & Sir Francis Drake.
LibraryThing member CliffBurns
A familiar PKD theme: character thrown out of this universe, confronted with a new and (usually) hostile reality...
Not top tier PKD.
Not top tier PKD.
LibraryThing member rameau
Pretty minor Dick, but still has the jazzy improv feel of his later novels The Simulacra and Clans of the Alphane Moon. Supposedly Van Vogt would slam two unrelated novellas together to make a novel. This seemed like that. Some of PKD's tics (Mars, classical music, German) make cameos.
LibraryThing member brakketh
Looks at some of the paradoxes of time travel and some of the strange things that can happen to a doctor taken and eventually returned to his own time.
LibraryThing member DanielSTJ
A fairly standard PKD romp through the exploration of space and time. I was satisfied with the characters and the plot, though they did not seem to be as detailed and in depth as many of other PKD works. However, the plot-line was very focused and direct in this one and I feel that this was a more
3 stars.
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stabilized, logical, and brief sojourn rather than a longer one- which could have offered more key details. Nevertheless, I was appeased.3 stars.
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Language
Original publication date
1960-02
Physical description
160 p.; 6.8 inches
ISBN
0413365409 / 9780413365408