Dr. Bloodmoney

by Philip K. Dick

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Superb. Typical Dick at his raging best. A study of egomania & solipcism in nuclearised California. The handicapped Hoppy Harrington, born phocomelus, would doubtless be considered taboo in the current climate, as it portrays someone disabled in a non too flattering manner. (

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tonydal | Sep 15, 2007 |

Strange, bathetic characters play out their tragic lives in a post-nuclear holocaust world. Horrific, extremely weird, and mesmerizing. (

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xenoi | Aug 30, 2007 |

This is one of my favorite PKD novels, owing, perhaps, in part to my predeliction for post-apocalyptic fiction. The usual PKD strangeness abounds, mutants, paranoia the unreliability of reality.

SnakeVargas | Dec 22, 2006 |

one of my favorite pkd novels. (

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Nebula Nominee (Novel, 1965)

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Early in the bright sun-yellowed morning, Stuart McConchie swept the sidewalk before Modern TV Sales & Service, hearing the cars along Shattuck Avenue and the secretaries hurrying on high heels to their offices, all the stirrings and fine smells of a new week, a new time in which a good salesman could accomplish things.

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Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick’s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonnie Keller, two unremarkable people bent the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dick’s undying hope in humanity.

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