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A friend let me read this book, it was one of the few books that I have read and had to go and buy a copy. Mr. Bischoff keeps true to the sprit of Philip K. Dick, but has done a story that stand on its own. I think and any person that enjoys the novels and short stories by Philip K. Dick will enjoy this book.

I bought this book on a whim when I saw it in the Oxfam book shop . I liked the form factor and the silly title that makes you think it's a Philip K. Dick book when actually it's not, it's by David Bischoff. I'd heard of Bischoff before but realised that was because he's written a few memorable Star Trek: TNG episodes ("Tin Man" anyone?).

So it didn't take me long to read, it's only 150 pages but that doesn't mean it wasn't without pain! To give credit where it's due, I was quite taken in by the first couple of chapters. The style was a bit off, something between a screenplay and a modern novel with a first person narration but I liked learning about the increasingly weird world of the main character, 'Quinn Roberts' - high-school jock supremo blah. Unfortunately a promising 30 page short story dragged on to become a hideously cliched, unoriginal bad b-movie sci-fi adventure not even worthy of mid-nineties Australian children's television.

To sum up this book is possibly the worst sci-fi I've ever read, the plot and it's many unlikely and unnecessary twists feel like they were written by teenager. For a book written in 2000 it feels thoroughly planted in the 1980s andI wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Rubbish.