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One of the stand-out novels in Philip K. Dick's career of wildly reality-bending SF, Martian Time- Slip (1964) convinces by placing its insanities in a quiet, even domestic context. Here colonised Mars has a flavour of grubby, struggling 1950s suburbia, where money (not to mention water) is in short supply, jobs are insecure, the humour's mostly black, and small tragedies like one minor character's suicide cause far-ranging ripples. The good old human comedy of lies, power-play, real-estate deals and extramarital naughtiness continues as ever--all distorted by the real SF factor, an autistic child's dislocated sense of time. In one memorable scene he sketches the glorious new Martian housing project just being planned ... but as it will look a century later, a decayed slum. So powerful are this boy's visions of nightmare futures that they suck in other people and infect them with sick images of the "gubbish worm", an appalling symbol of entropy. Gubbish devours beauty and reduces language itself to meaningless gubble-gubble. The very human and occasionally even likeable villain Arnie Kott plans to exploit this time-twisting ability, whereupon things become very tangled indeed. Another worthy reissue in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, which has yet to pick a single dud. --David Langford
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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.
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Philip Dick, like most science fiction writers, wrote enough action-oriented novels and stories to satisfy die hard genre fans, but anyone who has read Dick's work carefully knows that he came to be less concerned with action-adventure and more with very human issues. In Martian Time Slip, teaching androids are used in schools, one character is suspected of being able to see into the future, and, of course, the backdrop is Mars. Dick, though, uses this science fiction setting to explore aspects of the human condition, such as isolation, suffering, greed, hopelessness and cruelty, through the eyes of a number of characters who are all rendered with compassion despite their obvious shortcomings.
The basic plot revolves around the efforts of Arnie Kott, a bullish big fish in a small pond, to determine if an autistic child named Manfred Steiner can see the future. It is then Kott's intention to use that knowledge to further his own self interests. Drawn into this story are several others that Kott needs to carry out his plan, and it is through their perspectives, their personal struggles that may not even peripherally relate to Kott's scheme, that the novel derives its impact. One section of the book, in fact, recounts a single evening from four different points of view. It's an amazing display of technique that seems a natural development in the telling of the story and manages to challenge the reader's own opinions about the characters involved.
The novel's background detail is convincing as well, from the way Mars' relatively few surviving aboriginal inhabitants are portrayed as a race doomed long before humanity arrived, now lingering until probable eventual extinction, to the desolate nature of Mars itself and the attitudes and practices that have been transplanted from Earth. Much like the excellent Dr. Bloodmoney, which would appear the following year (1965), Martian Time-Slip is an ensemble story in a landscape that offers little hope aside from the comfort and love of other living beings which, I would like to believe, is what Dick is saying is the only hope of any consequence.
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Martian Time-Slip is the book that made me an avid PKD fan. This book alone made me buy over 40 more of his books. It is so terrifyingly brilliant that it simply blows my mind on rereading. The setting is very good, very real. The characters are some of PKD's best (Arnie Kott as the antagonist but still likable, Silvia Bohlen the stoic, Manfred Steiner the schizophrenic.) And the plot is tremendous without being overtly action-based.
The series of chapters where the same event (the meeting of Kott, Bohlen and Doreen) is told from different points of view is the single greatest influence on my attitude towards life. The sheer distemporality and the way in which PKD shows how different people see things changed my life.
I don't think Time-Slip is quite as good as the very best PKD, but it is close enough not to matter.
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Not bad at all, and in fact good enough for my wife to read it as her first PKD experience... to make her want more. I've read a number of his other books and consider Martian Time Slip as almost 'tame' compared to the mind trips in Ubik or others -- but still, a good read. Having worked with autistic children, I gained more valuable insights as to what may be going on in their world/time situations. Or, more confused? The characters are well developed, it has a seat-of-your-pants ending, and a good deal of twists and turns to keep it interesting. For those who really want to 'jump in' to the PKD experience, however, I'd recommend The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldrich to just cut to the chase and go nuts with it... gubble gubble!!
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I must be missing something here...
I bought this book, never having read any PKD before, simply because I thought it was time to try something by him, having read perhaps 75-100 other SF works, great and small. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Juli 2000 von S. Huff
The future is near
I like this book for the great ability of the writer to show real what is absurd or fantastic. Dick is a visionary man that write with basic and semplicity events or people... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Februar 2000 von Fabrizio Canevari
Masterpiece
Dick is amazing in that whilst he keeps coming back again and again to the same theme, he always reads freshly, with the amazing ability to surprise. I gasped reading this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. April 1999 von christopher.selth@bankerstrust.com.au
PKD is the Bomb
I took a while to finish this book, because the ideas and nonlinear narrative had me on my mental heels all the way through. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
Another modest Phil Dick mind grenade
Dick is the only author whose works literally force me to put the book down from time to time, for fear that reading one more sentence will send me to the insane asylum forever. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
profound, dreamy, wonderful
For me, the questions the novel asks (and leaves for readers to answer) are: what is archetypal memory? Does the world have its own memory? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. September 1998 veröffentlicht
PKD showing what it is like inside the mind of a Paranoid
The real treat for the true fans of Philip K. Dick. speculation about his mental stability have thrived even to this day. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. September 1998 veröffentlicht
A truly disturbing and rewarding book to read.
This book was a hard read for me. Many of the characters mimicked real thoughts and feelings and emotions, that I kept putting it down and only reading it when I was in a good... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
A masterpiece of speculative fiction
This novel blew my mind. PKD explores time, madness and human nature in this novel so thouroghly that it affects the reader deeply, sucking him or her into the bleak world. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. Mai 1998 veröffentlicht
An existential masterpiece, disguised as sci-fi
Not one of the very well known Philip K. Dick novels, but still, this is a brilliant endeavour into the exploration of the depths of human nature, delivered with exceptional style... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Januar 1998 veröffentlicht
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