โ Scribed by Philip K. Dick
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In The Novels of Philip K. Dick , Kim Stanley Robinson states that "In Milton Lumky Territory . . . is probably the best of Dick's realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist ," and calls it a "bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism." Dick, on the other hand, in his forward, says "This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too."
Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western USA and a psychic terrain: the world and world-view of the traveling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with some extraordinary long-distance driving sequences in which our hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco, to Reno, to Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search of a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under the spell of an attractive older woman (who used to be his school teacher) and Milton Lumky, a middle-aged paper salesman whose territory is the Northwest. And then Bruce and...
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### From Publishers Weekly First published in 1985 by a small press, this realist (read: not sci-fi) early novel from dystopian master Dick (19281982) bears the following introductory author's note: This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too, in that the funny things that happen ha
### From Publishers Weekly First published in 1985 by a small press, this realist (read: not sci-fi) early novel from dystopian master Dick (19281982) bears the following introductory author's note: This is actually a very funny book, and a good one, too, in that the funny things that happen ha
In The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson states that "In Milton Lumky Territory . . . is probably the best of Dick's realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist," and calls it a "bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism." Dick, on the other hand, in his forward, says "T
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