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The year is 2203, and the ruler of the Universe is chosen according to the random laws of a strange game under the control of Quizmaster Verrick. But when Ted Bentley, a research technician recently dismissed from his job, signs on to work for Verrick, he has no idea that Leon Cartwright is about to become the new Quizmaster. Nor does he know that he’s about to play an integral part in the plot to assassinate Cartwright so that Verrick can resume leadership of a universe not nearly as random as it appears.

Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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“One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction.” –The Sunday Times (London)

“A brilliant, idiosyncratic, formidably intelligent writer…Dick illuminates. He casts light. He gives off a radiance.” –Washington Post

“Philip K. Dick’s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable.” –The New York Times Book Review

“Dick [was] many authors: a poor man’s Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a rich product of the changing subculture.” –The Village Voice
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There had been harbingers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
classified serf, synthetic body, first assassin, power card, control bubble, protective ring Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Keith Pellig, Reese Verrick, Eleanor Stevens, Rita O'Neill, Herb Moore, Flame Disc, Peter Wakeman, Leon Cartwright, Major Shaeffer, Ted Benteley, Challenge Convention, Farben Hill, Margaret Lloyd, Miss Lloyd, Preston Society, Captain Groves, Good God New!
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