Counter-Clock World

Dick, Philip K

ISBN 10: 0007127707 ISBN 13: 9780007127702

Editorial: HarperCollins / HarperVoyager, 2008

Idioma: Ingl�s

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� 1968: A stand-alone novel by Philip K Dick. 1st printing of 2008 edition:- Synopsis: Sebastian Hermes wishes his future was history. In the Counter-Clock World time runs backwards. People are born in their graves, dug up when they can start speaking, and are reintroduced into society where they grow younger before returning to the womb to be unborn. The Hobart Phase has been reversing time since 1986 and nothing has quite been the same since. The Library is the most powerful and most feared organisation in the world, responsible for the eradication of records from history for events which have no longer happened. Anarch Peak, a black religious leader, is due to be old-born and the Library wants him dead. With a feud already developing in religious communities throughout the world, Seb Hermes is sent to retrieve Anarch from his captors. He must succeed before tensions trigger an all-out religious war:- Review(s): "At long last Philip K Dick is winning the recognition deserved by his extraordinary imagination" - The Times / "Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise" - Michael Moorcock:- (original cost �8.99).

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T�tulo

Counter-Clock World

Editor

HarperCollins / HarperVoyager

Fecha de publicaci�n

2008

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0007127707

ISBN 13

9780007127702

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Paperback: 7�" x 5"

Ilustrador

Cover Art: Chris Moore

Edici�n

2008 Edition

Estado

Near Fine: Small signs of wear

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Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning ‘Time’s Arrow’ by as much as twenty years, Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.

Time runs backwards in the Counter-Clock World. Old people emerge from their graves, grow to middle age, youth, adolescence and childhood to be finally unborn in their mothers wombs. The most powerful – and most feared – organisation in the world is the Library, in charge of expunging the written records of events, which have no longer happened.

When a powerful black leader is reborn, the Library's one concern is to eliminate him before the renewal of racial violence tears the country apart. But in this counter-clock year of 1998 it isn't that simple…

This eerie and unforgettable premise encapsulates Philip K Dick's ambitious and inimitable approach to fiction writing. The attempts of his characters to cope with the bizarre reality of a world that runs backwards while their minds run forwards like ours, operate as a stunning critique of the way in which we perceive our own civilization.

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Philip K Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He attended college for a year at Berkeley. Apart from writing, his main interest was music. He won the Hugo Award for his classic novel of alternative history, ‘The Man in the High Castle’ (1962). He was married five times and had three children. He died in March 1982.

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