โ Scribed by Philip K. Dick
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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 happen to real people who come alive. The ending is a happy one. What more can an author say? What more can he give? To which one answers indeed, and quickly turns to the adventures of protagonist Bruce Stevens as he drives into the Pacific Northwestthe sales territory of a Willy Lomanesque man named Milton Lumkylooking for wholesale typewriters. (May)
A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.
_Remarkable. . .echoes of Dicks contemporaries such as Ralph Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler and early Kurt Vonnegut Jr. resonate. . . . Dick fans will be in rapture.
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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,
### 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
TERRITORY is the story of Henrietta Southern, a young Englishwoman who trades her war-torn homeland for a place of wild tropical storms and searing heat, crocodile-infested rivers and barren red wilderness. Six months after the bombing of Darwin, she joins her new husband, Spitfire pilot Terence Gal
TERRITORY is the story of Henrietta Southern, a young Englishwoman who trades her war-torn homeland for a place of wild tropical storms and searing heat, crocodile-infested rivers and barren red wilderness. Six months after the bombing of Darwin, she joins her new husband, Spitfire pilot Terence Gal