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by Philip K. Dick (Author)
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Dick's 1968 novel offers a world in which water is a precious commodity and schizophrenia is the norm. For all sf collections.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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Parker's voice has a nasal quality that adds commonality to this eerie story of colonial life on Mars. Manfred Steiner is a 10-year-old autistic child, born on Mars, who Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's Union suspects may be able to manipulate time. In this venue, Dick discusses reality and explores madness as a bridge to other realms. Parker's precise reading style alleviates the intensity of the drama and sometimes frenzied action and helps the listener hang on to the story line. Using consistent pacing and tone, Parker leads us through extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, suicide and schizophrenic episodes. This interesting social commentary and fascinating view of the future appeals to the philosopher in us all. S.C.A. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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5.0 out of 5 stars Twenty-first century schizoid boy, Jun 7 2004
By Doug Mackey (Fairfield, IA USA) - See all my reviews
In this major novel, first published in 1964, Dick effectively utilizes multifocal viewpoints to comment on the nature of the schizophrenic experience and its implications for our evaluation of "normal" experience. The precognitive schizophrenic boy, Manfred Steiner, into whose mind the narrative sometimes strays, sees the world as entropic, in continual decline, as the horrifying spirit of the Gubbler pervades everything, reducing all communication to meaningless "gubble" and all life to dust and rot. Schizophrenia is seen here as a horror in which the dark shadowy fears and inner demons are let loose into the day world of ordinary consciousness. Manfred innocently projects his deranged vision so powerfully on others that they begin to see things the way he does, causing one main character's time-sense to become non-chronological. It seems to have the power of a pervasive, infectious disease in this novel, replicating itself throughout the fabric of society. It is interesting to read this in contrast with another sixties book about the schizophrenic experience, R. D. Laing's The Politics of Experience (1967. Dick hardly soft-pedals the horrific aspects of the disorder, but like Laing also plays with the possibility that the psychotic may sometimes glimpse reality more fully than "normal" people can.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Martian Time Slip: The Forbidden Future, Feb 15 2004
By Dorion Sagan (East Coast, USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a near-masterpiece about schizophrenia and society in the US in the 1950s, although it takes place on a sparsely populated Mars run by the UN, a desert world traversed by helicopters and inhabited most successfuly by indigenous blacks and the Arabs and the Jews of New Israel. Jack Bohlen, like the younger P.K.Dick, is a repairman of audio devices such as the anachronistically reel-to-reel tape-based encoding machine used by his eventual boss, the irrepressible but irresponsible Arnie Kott, the leader--the Supereme Goodmember--of the Water Worker's Union on Mars. Kott is a big fish in a small pond, and his beautiful red-headed girlfriend is easily as interested in Jack, who is married, with a normal child, as she is in her big spender boss. There are at least two main problems: 1) they live on Mars, an essentially lonely red desert of frontier survival, despite its indigenous population of Aborigine-like "Bleekmen" and 2) schizophrenia is beginning to transmit laterally, like a contagion rather than a genetic disease. This second problem is compounded by the potential usefulness of the afflicted, especially a boy named Manfred Steiner, whose father commits suicide early on, leaving Jack's wife, the phenobarbital-popping Silvia, to care for the healthy children. Hard-drinking cut throat businessman Kott, who likes to waste water in steam baths on a planet where scotch is cheaper than beer because it contains less water, realizes that the mentally ill on this small planet have real clairvoyant powers. Without going into too much plot detail, there is much of interest here. It has been said that the greatest windfall of the space program is that it allowed us to look back and really see ourselves for the first time. Dick's Mars here is a transported microcosm, with Bleekman as the indigenous people whose valuable civilizations have been temporarily trampled, their human reservoirs of knowledge insulted and enslaved. The sexism, suburban isolation, and prescribed drug use of the fifties has also landed undamaged on the red planet. The faith in American psychiatry is subtly spoofed as for example when the red planet's most highly regarded therapist (therapists on Mars stand in for agoraphobics, accomplishing their worldly affairs), the essentially petty Milton Glaub, diagnoses Kott as someone with an "oral, sucking problem." More to the point, schizophrenia itself, of which P.K.D. is thought to have had a (pharmaceutically enhanced) touch, is wonderfully described, both "internally" via the points of view of Jack and Manfred (and later, Arnie, the last one you would expect to be afflicted) and "externally" with reference to Swiss theorists who analyze it as essentially a disturbance in the time sense. In this connection there is much talk of "gub" and "gubbish"-stand-in words for the schizophrenic's sense of dissolution, of a lack of meaning and the eventual entropic deconstruction of all presently held valuable. The gub words, which emanate at one point even from the mechanical teaching robots (e.g., Mark Twain) at the local public school, alert us that clairvoyant Steiner's schizophrenia is potentiating Bohlen's latent affliction. When Bohlen's father comes to the UN planet to put a down payment on land that will be used for emigrants, Arnie Kott is angry and scooped because he can see that his mafia-like control is coming to an end. Yet Jack's realtor father is also upset because the Steiner boy can look still further to see the demise of the housing complex that will contain the emigrants and enrich the land developers. Indeed, the Steiner boy, along with we ourselves, can eventually project into a future that "jubs" us all. Here jub joins with "kipple" in Dick's special lexicon of entropy-related words: jub is a mental version, in a way, of kipple, Dick's term for household clutter, gum wrappers and old newspapers and the like. "Ich liebe die Unwissenheit um die Zukunft" wrote Nietzsche: "I love not knowing the future." Dick's schizophrenic seers here are afflicted by the weight of knowing too much, one of the great themes of human introspection-even in the Bible where it is a weight which makes the first couple plummet to Earth after Eve eats the forbidden apple. This is not "hard science fiction"--the origins of the Bleekmen and the breathability of the atmosphere are never addressed--but it is emotionally rivetting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great book by great Philip K. Dick, Dec 15 2003
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I've read a couple of Dick's novels and really enjoyed them all, except "VALIS" which I found a little bit superficial and banal. Im a big fan of "Three stigmata of Palmer Eldrich" which is his best book in my opinion.
"Martian Time-Slip" is a typical Phil Dick book - boring in the beginning, confusing in the middle, but excellent and interesting in the end. It is also his most optimistic and life-affirming book as well.
The essence of this book is the story of little autistic kid, who is deeply troubled by his savant abilities which allow him to see future and past. Driven into the state of sheer terror by visions of his own old age and death in the gloomy abandoned complexes of Martian colonists, boy is finding happiness by withdrawing into his past as a fetus in his mother's womb. Boy's ability to bend time is affecting people around him, and some of them foolishly try to use it to achieve their selfish goals. Finally, boy achieves redemption from his visions by coming into the contact with Bleekman - a backward and primitive, but deeply human and strange Martian nomadic race.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My Brain on a Platter
I'll be honest, the psychotic breakdown of Arnie Kott, which comes quite late in the book has been better represented in Dick's other books (such as A Scanner Darkly) but this... Read more
Published on Aug 3 2003 by Jim Richards

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I purchased this book after reading Dick's novels "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" and "Ubik", both of which I really enjoyed. Read more
Published on April 30 2003 by Kevin Keigwin

5.0 out of 5 stars Gubble Trouble
Warning: Although this the action of this book is set on Mars, it could just as easily have taken place in one of the desert communities around Los Angeles. Read more
Published on Jul 1 2002 by James Paris

1.0 out of 5 stars uh
In the beginning there was the book and the book told a story. The story turned out to make the mose infinite and iniminable sense imagineable to everybody who read it. Read more
Published on May 23 2002 by pres4

5.0 out of 5 stars Novel of ideas succeeds as art
Of course Dick spins a fantastic yarn in lean and efficient prose. But infused into his plot there's a mind-bending metaphysical tension alongside the ringing of a profound alarm... Read more
Published on May 18 2002 by pres4

4.0 out of 5 stars Crazy
Martian Time-Slip at its core is about humans' perception of reality and time, which makes for a very interesting read even though the subject is wrapped in a crazy story. Read more
Published on April 12 2002 by devilm

5.0 out of 5 stars Hold on to your hat
So maybe Dick's vision of the future was wrong, and his grasp of Martian geography was weak. Well, Shakespeare gave a seacoast to Bohemia and Italian names to Danes, and it didn't... Read more
Published on Nov 13 2001 by Scott Spires

4.0 out of 5 stars Unbalancing
Where to begin. The story tells of mental instability, perception of time, and life on a colony on the planet Mars. Read more
Published on Nov 13 2001 by sardonic27

5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimately: Hope
Philip K Dick has been accused as being the most depressing writer to ever grace the science fiction genre. In some ways, this may be true. However, Mr. Read more
Published on Aug 14 2001 by David Fields

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
I've read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and"The Man in the High Castle", and I only had high hopes forthis book. I can't say enough about this book! Read more
Published on Mar 25 2001 by Robert Tanory

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