Slavers of Space / Dr. Futurity
by Philip K. Dick (Author), John. Brunner (Author)
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Dr. Futurity is a rather strange time travel story from 1960. A Doctor in our near future has his car thrown off the road by an unknown force as he is travelling highway 101 towards San Francisco. He awakens from the crash in the future but geographically in the same place. He is picked up on the highway after nearly being killed by a very young driver who thought he wanted to be killed ... and continues on to San Francisco. It is a strange future populated by young people who speak a language he can barely decipher. This is a Logan's Run sort of future where you die young but it really gets crazy with a time travel battle with a group trying to negate the other's past. The Doctor has been called to save a leader of one group. There is show more some interesting stuff amidst the weirdness of a Philip K Dick novel. This is a short lesser celebrated novel that I imagine most PKD fans will get a kick out of. Typical of Dick, there are a lot of things to think about here. Parts of this novel are very good, and parts just so-so. The end was full of surprises. Definitely worth the read for me. show less
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Phillip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction writer best known for his psychological portrayals of characters trapped in illusory environments. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 16, 1928, Dick worked in radio and studied briefly at the University of California at Berkeley before embarking on his writing career. His first novel, Solar show more Lottery, was published in 1955. In 1963, Dick won the Hugo Award for his novel, The Man in the High Castle. He also wrote a series of futuristic tales about artificial creatures on the loose; notable of these was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was later adapted into film as Blade Runner. Dick also published several collections of short stories. He died of a stroke in Santa Ana, California, in 1982. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Legendary science fiction author John Brunner was the winner of the Hugo award and two-time winner of the British Science Fiction Award. He was perhaps the first science fiction author to predict the Internet and coined the term "worm" to descibe computer viruses. Mr. Brunner died in 1995
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Ace Double SF (D-421)
Ace Double (D-421)
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- Slavers of Space / Dr. Futurity
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- 1960
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- This entry represents Ace Double Novel D-421, which combined Philip K. Dick's "Dr. Futurity" with John Brummer's "Slavers of Space". Please do not combine this entry with those for either of the two component works.
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