Martian Time-Slip
By Philip K. Dick
(Mariner Books, Paperback, 9780547572574, 272pp.)
Publication Date: October 23, 2012
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Audio Cassette
Categories: Literary, Science Fiction - General
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Combining aliens, time travel, and interplanetary real estate scams, Martian Time-Slip may just be the quintessential Philip K. Dick novel. On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land before the UN develops it and its value skyrockets. Martian Union leader Arnie Kott has an ace up his sleeve, though: an autistic boy named Manfred who seems to have the ability to see the future. But is he seeing the future as it will be or is he seeing it through his own dark and paranoid filter? When Manfred begins sending other people traveling through time, the answer to this question just might mean the difference between success or insanity.
Over a writing career that spanned three decades, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned toward deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film; notably: Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, Dick was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2007 the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
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