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Solar Lottery (Paperback)

by Philip K. Dick (Author)

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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Collier Books; Reprint edition (August 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0020236212
ISBN-13: 978-0020236214
Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 14 x 1.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 227 g

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This is Philip K. Dick's first published novel. Set on Earth and the Moon in the year 2230, the story incorporates the ideas of mind-control, androids and advanced game theory in a struggle between two power blocs.

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“One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction.” –The Sunday Times (London)

“A brilliant, idiosyncratic, formidably intelligent writer…Dick illuminates. He casts light. He gives off a radiance.” –Washington Post

“Philip K. Dick’s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable.” –The New York Times Book Review

“Dick [was] many authors: a poor man’s Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a rich product of the changing subculture.” –The Village Voice
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars It's all about power, Jun 2 2004

By	Doug Mackey (Fairfield, IA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Solar Lottery: A Novel (Paperback)

Dick's first published novel, Solar Lottery (1955) is impressive and original. It was much influenced by several famous sf novels--A. E. van Vogt's complexly plotted World of Null-A, Kurt Vonnegut's dystopian black comedy Player Piano, and Alfred Bester's pyrotechnic novel of telepathic police The Demolished Man. Solar Lottery is not unworthy of being mentioned in their company. It is not quite a typical Dick novel: it lacks the humor of the later works, as well as the theme of reality breakdown, but it is quite effective on its own terms. Dick foresaw a world where all power is concentrated in the hands of the government and private corporations. A great quiz game which decides the leader, but it is rigged against the powerless. Furthermore, the system, with its built-in structure of killing its own leaders, decrees that nothing lasts or should last. In its dark, complex picture of power relationships, this novel is totally relevant today.

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