From Publishers Weekly
SF author Dick has been dead more than five years, but his influence continues to be felt. Bishop's intriguing new novel is patterned on the work of Dick, mirroring the late author's characterization and styleand Dick himself is also a character. The book is set in an alternate 1982 during the fourth term of President Nixon. It's a dark time: civil liberties have been stripped away, protest is dangerous. Pet shop worker Cal Pickford is one of many Americans who have little love for "King Richard," and he lives in fear that his dissident ideas will be detected. He foolishly mentions to an Americulturated Vietnamese bookstore clerk that he has a secret cache of forbidden Philip K. Dick novels, and so sets in motion malignant government forces. On Cal's side is the disembodied and amnesic spirit of the recently dead Philip K. Dick himself. This is a wonderfully inventive novel and a lovingly crafted homage, by one of the best of the younger SF writers.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
As Richard Nixon contemplates an unprecedented fifth term as President of a right-wing America, the ghost of sf author Philip K. Dick materializes in the office of psychoanalyst Lia Bonner and initiates a chain of events that transforms the world. In a stylistic tribute to the late Philip K. Dick, Bishop explores the metaphysical boundaries of reality with the same acute vision that characterized Ancient of Days. Intensely thoughtful, and highly recommended.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
