Penultimate Truth, The (Sf Masterworks Series No. 58)
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Description:
World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive l...
World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive l...
Description:
World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive lie. Now the search begins to find out why.
Author Biography:
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick won the Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle. More than 20 years after his death his influence on SF has never been greater.
World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive lie. Now the search begins to find out why.
Author Biography:
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick won the Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle. More than 20 years after his death his influence on SF has never been greater.
| Autor | Dick, Philip K. |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 2005 |
| Kirjastus | Orion Publishing Co (Group) |
| Köide | Pehmekaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 208 |
| Pikkus | 198 |
| Laius | 198 |
| Keel | English |
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