Jonathan Lethem, editor "The most outre science fiction writer of
the 20th century has finally entered the canon," exclaimed Wired
Magazine upon The Library of America's May 2007 publication of
Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s, edited by Jonathan
Lethem. Now comes a companion volume collecting five novels that
offer a breathtaking overview of the range of this science-fiction
master. Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a writer of incandescent
imagination who made and unmade world-systems with ferocious
rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. "The floor joists of the
universe," he once wrote, "are visible in my novels." Martian
Time-Slip (1964) unfolds on a parched and thinly colonized Red
Planet where schizophrenia is a contagion and the unscrupulous seek
to profit from a troubled child's time-fracturing visions. Dr.
Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965) chronicles
the deeply-interwoven stories of a multi-racial community of
survivors, including the scientist who may have been responsible
for World War III. Famous, among other reasons, for a therapy
session involving a talking taxicab, Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
explores the effects of JJ-180, a hallucinogen that alters not only
perception, but reality. In Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
(1974), a television star seeks to unravel a mystery that has left
him stripped of his identity. A Scanner Darkly (1977), the basis
for the 2006 film, envisions a drug-addled world in which a
narcotics officer's tenuous hold on sanity is strained by his new
surveillance assignment: himself. Mixing metaphysics and madness,
phantasmagoric visions of a post-nuclear world and invading
extraterrestrial authoritarians, and all-too-real evocations of the
drugged-out America of the 70s, Dick's work remains exhilarating
and unsettling in equal measure. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an
independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to
preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping
permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing.
The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to
date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length,
feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are
printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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